Were there more democratic political machines than GOP machines?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Republican machines were typically composed of people who had a reason to hate the Democrats. Its ironic that Republicans were founded out of the collapse of the Whigs, but found themselves straddling a very unstable coalition that spanned class and racial lines. The only issue that really united them was support for tariffs.

Yankee Whites and German protestants formed the basic core of any Republican coalition in the late 19th century. African Americans where they could vote were as well. After that came any group that the Democrats alienated by catering so heavily towards the Irish, leaving other groups out to dry on patronage jobs and such.