[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "I wouldn't use today's bumbling and inexact terms for that time in our history. I think you don't want to answer the question because you know what the answer is and you don't like it."

Why don't you correct me then? But to continue the discussion, "The Democratic Party of the Confederate States and Whig Party of the Confederate States, for starters down south, and that interesting amalgam, the National Union Party in the north." What's not to like?

[DiogenesLamp]

But to continue the discussion, "The Democratic Party of the Confederate States and Whig Party of the Confederate States, for starters down south, and that interesting amalgam, the National Union Party in the north." What's not to like?

I do not grasp how your citing the existence of other 1860 parties has anything to do with where Northern Republicans lived or what their ideology was. It's certainly not a continuation of anything I was discussing.

I thought we were specifically talking about the Republicans of 1860, not anybody else.