Electoral and demographic data, 1848-1876, Massachusetts
By: principal investigator, Dale Baum
Series: ICPSR -- 8242; ICPSR (Series) -- 8242
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 11373
Subjects: Local elections; Statistics; Population
Description: This collection contains electoral and demographic data for Massachusetts counties and cities during 1848-1876. The data for this collection were compiled to study electoral changes in Massachusetts politics during the Civil War period and to link the changes to socioeconomic determinants of support for the Republican and Democratic parties. The data include election returns, data from Massachusetts state censuses, Massachusetts General Court reports, data from the Archives of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and data from the Massachusetts Bureau of State of Labor.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1848-1876.

Massachusetts.

367 cases; 31 records per case; logical record length of 80.

Baum, Dale. The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts, 1848-1876. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Baum, Dale. 'Know-Nothingism and the Republican Majority in Massachusetts: The Political Realignment of the 1850s.' Journal of American History 64 (March 1978), pp. 959-986.