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To: ontap

“That’s rich....the Confederacy was made up of Democrats!!”

Freepers do love keeping their history as simple as possible. Especially when the make believe version is useful for current political controversies.

Alexander Stephens, CSA VP, had been a Whig from 1836-1851. A Unionist in 1851, and again a Whig in 1853

John Tyler, CSA Congress, had been the 10th US President, one of only four Whigs to ever hold that office.

Judah Benjamin, CSA Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Attorney General, was a Whig until 1856.

The CSA didn’t have political parties. Historians who examined the previous parties of elected officials in the CSA found them to be primarily a mix of Democrats and Cotton Whigs with Democrats holding an edge.


81 posted on 09/08/2022 2:57:58 PM PDT by Pelham (World War III is entering on cat's feet. )
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To: Pelham

And we can add that the famous Condederate raider, John Mosby worked for/with Republicans shortly after the war. And so did General Beauregard.


82 posted on 09/08/2022 3:00:37 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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