The Democratic party was a proponent for slave-owners across the country, urban workers, and caucasian immigrants.[citation needed] It was especially attractive to Irish immigrants who increasingly controlled the party machinery in the cities. The party was much less attractive to businessmen, African American Evangelical Protestants, and social reformers.[citation needed] The party advocated westward expansion, Manifest Destiny, greater equality among all white men, and opposition to the national banks. In 1860 the Civil War began between the mostly-Republican North against the mostly-Democratic, slave-holding South.
If we are going eliminate all the Southern Generals we need to do the same to the Democratic party.
LT. COLONEL KRANG @KrangTNelson Aug 4
