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- Title
South Carolina Catholics and the Know Nothing Challenge: The Charleston Elections of 1855.
- Authors
Tate, Adam
- Abstract
South Carolina Catholics defended themselves against the nativist attacks ofthe Know Nothings during the 1855 Charleston city elections by portraying themselves as loyal southerners and Americans. During the political battle, a number of South Carolina Democrats rose to defend their Catholic neighbors from nativist attacks. By the end of the election cycle, South Carolina Catholics had adopted a critique of centralized state power that gelled with broader Carolinian political concerns, bringing them closer to the South Carolina political and cultural mainstream.
- Subjects
SOUTH Carolina; CATHOLICS; NATIVISTIC movements; DEMOCRATS (United States); CATHOLIC Church
- Publication
Catholic Social Science Review, 2013, Vol 18, p105
- ISSN
1091-0905
- Publication type
Article