The Dems also tended to represent large merchant capital, both before and after the Civil War.
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> > Nobody is seeking to deny any of that, only to point out that in the
> > inter-war period there was another ethnic conflict, one that shook the
> > entire political organisation of the country, leading to the
> > reconstitution of the Democratic Party as a party of the urban masses
> > and the transformation of the ruling racial ideology.
>
> I wonder about your timing here. My impression is
> that the DP had roots in the urban masses, such as
> they were, well before the turn of the century.
> The Republicans were the party of big Eastern
> capital and gave the Irish, for one group, a
> reason to join a different party. There were
> also of course the urban draft riots in the North
> in the Civil War period.
>
> MBS
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