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                When Reconstruction began, which groups of Americans living in the South tended to support the Democratic Party?
            
            
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                    Answered by
            Ms. Sue
            
    Abraham Lincoln's Republican party freed the slaves and began Reconstruction of the South.  The Southern whites bitterly opposed Reconstruction and turned en masse to the Democratic party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats#American_Civil_War_.26_post-Reconstruction
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556642_2/Reconstruction_(U_S_history).html
    
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats#American_Civil_War_.26_post-Reconstruction
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556642_2/Reconstruction_(U_S_history).html
                    Answered by
            kiki
            
    scalawags
    
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