Namely, I have talked about the anti-slavery position (proved, among others, by the importance given to the Northern branches), somehow moderate in order to keep the votes of the nativist Americans, who used to sympathize with Know-Nothings factions but were rather liberal in terms of usage of slave work. The previous supporters of the Know-Nothings moved in a large amount towards the Republicans rather then to the Democrats, because the former managed to emphasize both sectionalism and nativism.
Generally, the political debate seemed to be focused rather on social problems than on major political controversies. Of course, any social issue is a bearer of potential political decision, and the threats the local population was facing had to be solved through political means. Therefore, the ideological component of a political organization had to cover all levels, maintaining in the same time a unitary approach, thing that was quite challenging in certain moments. The Republican party managed to combine the protection of the interests of locals faced with massive immigration waves with a liberal approach. All in all, in this political web of definitions and positions, the Republican party was trying to keep the core of moral protestant values; all the measures suggested and promoted, all the political ideals were built around the ideal of a moral republic - and this conceptual frame shaped the attitude towards slave owners, towards the working class problems and its protection, towards the economic development suggested path etc.
The Republicans also found a source of inspiration (as well as a certain number of votes) in the Whigs party, taking the liberal bourgeois principles from this party. Once the Whigs' organization disintegrated, the liberal voters switched to the Republicans, given the ideological similarities. Maintaining the support for nativism and an Anti-Catholic approach, borrowed from the Know-Nothings, the Republicans incorporated doctrinaire elements from the Whigs, mainly by shaping and keeping a liberal and abolitionist conceptual frame.
The connection between the Republicans and the Whigs can be seen also from the "average voter/supporter" portrait - and there are studies showing that evangelical denominations, such as Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists were supporting the Whig and the republican parties, while anti-evangelical groups - Catholic Irish, Lutheran Germans and Methodists were oriented towards the Democrats. The Whig electorate from the first pool of voters went to the Republicans, once the Whigs disappeared, following the entrepreneurial and moral values promoted by the "Puritan" Republicans. Given the specificities of the times and the massive changes that the American society was going through, all the parties had to come up with personalized solutions to the inherent developmental problems. The process of industrialization and the general economic development of a society requires a set of solutions and decisions meant to facilitate the process. But let us not forget that it also causes social earthquakes and a redefinition of the social structure, felt at all levels of the society and generating issues that also require political solutions.
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