Civil rights isn’t purely a partisan issue, it’s more of a regional issue with northerners from both parties supporting it and southerners from both parties opposing.
Southern newspapers condemned Brown. Some said his raid was an act of war. Some demanded that he be executed as a thief and murderer. Many southerners said all of the North was responsible for the raid.
Tyler feared that Congress then would raise import taxes to get more money for the federal government. As a southerner, the president opposed taxes on imports.
The job of treasury secretary went to Howell Cobb, a southern moderate from Georgia. Southerners also were named as secretary of war, interior secretary and postmaster general.
The curative benefits of peaches were met with skepticism by southerners until northerners started coming forward to " prove " that it was " a good treatment " when they were children.
Indeed, Policy Exchange, a think-tank, has worked out that northerners from the highest social class are more likely to vote Labour than are southerners from the lowest social class.
Northerners and southerners alike hoped that slavery would just die out. But the rise of king cotton and its domination of the southern economy just made slavery stronger.
Even if a token southerner were appointed, for example, the difference between a candidate from pro-European Spain and one from Eurosceptic Italy might be vast.