Thomas W. Kremm, in Journal of In-terdisciplinary History (Summer 1977),
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Historians have long believed that Abraham Lincoln owed his election as President in 1860 to the votes of the foreign-born. Naturalized citi- zens-particularly German-Americans who had taken part in the middle-class uprisings of Europe in 1848-shared a hostility toward both slavery and the overwhelming influence of the South in Congress. They therefore voted in solid blocs for the Republican...