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Southerners were afraid of the Republican party because the Republicans wanted to free the slaves. Many people in the south felt that they could not survive economically if they were not allowed to keep slaves.
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∙ 12y agoIn the years following the Civil War, the Republican Party promoted rights for Blacks. Also at that time, many Southern Whites either had been slaveholders themselves or had otherwise benefitted economically from slavery, so they resented the end of slavery.
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