Ethnocultural Politics, 1830-90

POLITICAL ORIENTATION OF MAJOR
ETHNOCULTURAL GROUPS
1830-90

Strongly Whig/Republican 75-100 % Quaker Scots-Irish Presbyterian Free Will Baptists Congregationalists New School Presbyterians Unitarians Northern Methodists Irish Methodists Cornish Methodists Welsh Methodists Swedish Lutherans Norwegian Lutherans Haugean Lutherans New England Episcopalians New Dutch Reformed French Huguenots Black Protestants		Moderately Whig/Republican 50-75 % Christian Church-Disciples of Christ Missionary Baptists Regular Baptists Midwestern Universalists Old School Presbyterians New German Lutherans Danish Lutherans German Pietistic Groups Amish Brethren Mennonites Moravians New Dutch Christian Reformed

Strongly Democratic 75-100 % Irish Catholics German Catholics French Catholics Bohemian Catholics French Canadians French Southern Baptists Southern Methodists		Moderately Democratic 50-75 % Old British Episcopalians Southern Presbyterians New England Universalists Southern Christian-Disciples of Christ Old German Lutherans Old German Reformed Old Dutch Reformed

SOURCE: Robert F. Swierenga, "Ethnoreligious Political Behavior in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Voting, Values, Cultures," in Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s, ed. Mark A. Noll (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 157.

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