County Maps for 1860?

[TommyC1776]

Can Dave or someone make it so this site can have the counties (results) for this election?

[Hash]

I have a 1860 county map in a book.

[TommyC1776]

I have a 1860 county map in a book.

Can I see the results for the 1860 counties?  Thanks.

[Hash]

That'd be hard to do as I don't have a scanner.

[TommyC1776]

That'd be hard to do as I don't have a scanner.

Then can u tell me the name of the book?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

From: http://geoelections.free.fr/

[TommyC1776]

thanks for that map Sibboleth.  Is there any way I can find out the results for each county?  (like the votes.)  Thanks.

[Hash]

The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been?

By Roger L. Ransom

[socaldem]

I find it interesting that a lot of the Mississippi river counties in Mississippi went for Bell.  Why?

Also, it looks like St. Louis City and County went for Lincoln as did one other county in Missouri. 

It looks like Douglas, meanwhile, got some support in Northern Alabama and around Augusta, Georgia.

Its interesting to see the Southern Candidate win such large swaths of California only to be countered by very pale blue along the Northern California coast.  Still its stunning to think that Mendocino County went for Breckenridge.  Perhaps it was anti-Chinese sentiment.  But I don't think the Chinese population peaked for a few more decades at which point it was up to a third of some rural Northern CA counties.

[??????????]

Curse these small maps! Al, you're killin' me!

[TommyC1776]

The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been?

By Roger L. Ransom

Thanks.  Do I get it online or can i buy it at a bookstore?

[ill ind]

  Lincoln did carry St. Louis and Gasconade County Missouri.  Gasconade supposedly went for him because of its high German immigrant population and their abolitionist sentiments.

  Breckenridge's running mate was Joseph Lane a senator from Oregon.  I'm sure that helped his showing in the western states.  Also alot of settlers in California were from the south.  If you look at the actual vote totals, San Francisco was by far the biggest county (population wise) in the state, and Lincoln carried that.

  Douglas' running mate was Herschel Johnson of Georgia which explains him winning the Augusta area.

  The plantation owner class in the south was quite conservative and voted more for Bell than Breckenridge.  The delta area of Mississippi had several large plantations.  Bell did indeed run well there.

Ill Ind

[Colin]

The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been?

By Roger L. Ransom

Interesting book, one of the few that views alternate history through an economic and historical bent rather than a novel or story form.

[Hash]

One of the most plausible takes on an independent CSA IMO.

[Rob]

I find it interesting that a lot of the Mississippi river counties in Mississippi went for Bell.  Why?

Rich ex-Whig planters supported the de facto Whig candidate.

[minionofmidas]

I find it interesting that a lot of the Mississippi river counties in Mississippi went for Bell.  Why?

Rich ex-Whig planters supported the de facto Whig candidate.

Their trade was with the North. They probably knew that secession was suicide.