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Democrat History in St. Charles County

When Missouri became a state in 1821 and St. Charles Countians were able to vote in their first US and local elections. St. Charles County was a divided county during the Civil War.  Most of the small farm German immigrants were against slavery and aligned with the Republicans.  The large farm English/Americans from Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia who had slaves aligned themselves with the Democratic Party.  By 1870 Republican rule in Missouri and St. Charles County had ended.  For the next two decades a strong two party system continued, but the mostly Catholic Germans migrated towards the Democratic Party and its more populist platform during the first half of the 19th century.

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