After losing the "corrupt bargain" presidential election of 1824, Jackson expanded upon his political base in the lower and mid-South, pulling together many strands of disaffection from around the country. ... And this struggle, they declared, lay behind the major problems of the day, as the "associated wealth" of America sought to augment its domination. ... Nativism, for example, struck them as a hateful manifestation of elitist puritanism. ...

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