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, 21:26, November 28, 2021→GOP campaign, 1876: I believe the Southern Whigs were more the upper-class aristocracy while the Southern Democrats were more among lower-class whites.
==Timeline==
==Timeline==
===GOP campaign, 1876===
===GOP campaign, 1876===
During the 1876 presidential election, the Republican National Convention nominated Rutherford B. Hayes and William Wheeler to head the party ticket for the general election. Both Hayes and Wheeler sought to peel away Democrat support from the South by voicing conciliatory tones, attempting to draw support from old Southern Whigs<ref name=williamwheelerbio/> who eventually joined the Democratic Party when the Whig Party collapsed.
During the 1876 presidential election, the Republican National Convention nominated Rutherford B. Hayes and William Wheeler to head the party ticket for the general election. Both Hayes and Wheeler sought to peel away Democrat support from the South by voicing conciliatory tones, attempting to draw support from upper-class old Southern Whigs<ref name=williamwheelerbio/> who eventually joined the Democratic Party when the Whig Party collapsed.
[[Frederick Douglass]] asked at the party convention whether delegates would continue to uphold the constitutional rights of blacks, or if they intended to "get along without the vote of the black man in the South." Hayes and Wheeler chose the latter.
[[Frederick Douglass]] asked at the party convention whether delegates would continue to uphold the constitutional rights of blacks, or if they intended to "get along without the vote of the black man in the South." Hayes and Wheeler chose the latter.