attract their support? so here s the dilemma. retain your traditional supporters but continue to turn away the growing body of new americans or, of course, here s the danger, alienate your old supporters and make a play for these immigrant groups, otherwise, they would simply continue to flock, to flood the ranks of the democratic party. in retrospect we can see that the whigs did the wrong thing, at least in terms of survival. they opted for changing their approach. they opted to make a play for this new immigrant vote. remember we talked about this a couple, a few lectures ago, we talked about what we call negative reference group voting. we talked about the cultural factors, cultural religious factors that helped us understand why people voted the way they did in the 19th century, especially in the second party system. and you can imagine how the traditional constituency of the whig party especially in the north is going to be at the very least confused and at the worst re
actually, it s interesting, in some states recent immigrants could vote without becoming citizens so laws varied. the whig dilemma in 1852 could be described or expressed this way. are you going to continue if you re asking the question here of a whig party leader, is your political party going to continue to just kiss good-bye to all of those new voters or are you going to try to somehow integrate them to somehow attract their support. so here s the dilemma. retain your traditional supporters but continue to turn away the growing body of new americans or, of course here s the danger, alienate your old supporters and make a play for these immigrant groups, otherwise, they would simply continue to flock or flood the ranks of the democratic party. in retrospect we can see that the whigs did the wrong thing, at least in terms of survival. they opted for changing their approach. they opted to make a play for this new immigrant vote. remember we talked about this a couple lectures
are you going to try to somehow integrate them to somehow attract their support. so here s the dilemma. retain your traditional supporters but continue to turn away the growing body of new americans or, of course here s the danger, alienate your old supporters and make a play for these immigrant groups, otherwise, they would simply continue to flock or flood the ranks of the democratic party. in retrospect we can see that the wigs did the wrong thing, at least in terms of survival. they opted for changing their approach. they opted to make a play for this new immigrant vote. remember we talked about this a couple lectures ago, we talked about what we called negative reference group voting. we talked about the cultural factors, cultural religious factors that helped us understand why people voted the way they did in the 19th century, especially in the second party system. and you can imagine how the traditional constituency of the wig party especially in the north is going to
thank you. when i wrote how the states got their shapes too, i was doing with why the lines where they are. and in doing that i encountered stories of people who were involved in the why, but the book was unable to contain those stories. and so this book is a collection of the people who i encountered and subsequently looked into, that created the lines. but both books are really seeking to answer one question here, which is how did we get from this to this. and in this second book, some of the chapters deal with people who, not with these particular lines but try to put more of these lines on the map but failed. or people who have tried in some cases are currently trying to change some of those lines. if you all got a handout it should look very much like this. these are the names of the people that i looked into. a number of them will be talking about tonight but i want you all to the copy so that later when we do questions, they can help for my question or help others
his work. evolutions may seem nasty, brutish, and short. these grow and a moral mechanisms have led to a world with extraordinary intricacy, interconnectedness comment corporation. and just want to run through a few examples of that corporation this light just shows mitochondria. small organelles. packing for ourselves. realized in the last 30 years that they had nothing to do with us in terms of origin. free living bacteria into the engine the ocean, and they came to tell the heavens munched away elegy cohabit with the coal reef but i have become so close in with that sell. so intricate that they tied the existence without the cells of their body. and now they cannot survive without. that is just the beginning of the complexity of the thing we call a human being. you can watch this and other programs on line at book tv. next, marc stein examines the many people who shape state boundaries. the authors profile range from brigham young to jeremiah dixon and charles manson. t