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The Whigs appealed to voters in every socio-economic category but proved especially attractive to the professional and business classes: doctors, lawyers, merchants, ministers, bankers, storekeepers, factory owners, commercially oriented farmers and large-scale planters. In general, commercial and manufacturing towns and cities voted Whig, save for strongly Democratic precincts in Irish Catholic and German immigrant communities; the Democrats often sharpened their appeal to the poor by ridiculing the Whigs' aristocratic pretensions. Protestant religious revivals also injected a moralistic element into the Whig ranks.[7]
... Many were pietistic Protestant reformers who called for public schools to teach moral values and proposed prohibition to end the liquor problem.
... Many were pietistic Protestant reformers who called for public schools to teach moral values and proposed prohibition to end the liquor problem.
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