20LincElection

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:02:53 -0500

This map targets specifically the 1860 election, won by Lincoln, but gives clues of the policy tensions he faced throughout the war. To win the war, Lincoln had to avoid giving the border states a reason to join the Confederacy. Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia (that one is complicated), Kentucky, and Missouri were slave states but did not vote for the pro-slavery Democrat nor even join the Confederacy. Lincoln's policies were pro-North but not so much as to drive them out of his coalition.