This master thesis examines the presidential election outcomes in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia between the end of the American Civil War and the beginning of the First World War. By analysing the election results, the study compares and identifies the differences between these states in terms of their support for the Republican or Democratic Party candidates. It then relates these results to the individual electoral programmes of the presidential candidates, revealing whether the states have continuously supported a particular political orientation, in line with the former Union-Confederate border. By analysing these processes, the thesis seeks to show whether the former Union-Confederate border had any impact on the presidential elections in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
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