Your politics and goals/occupation in the late 1850s(post-1855)

[Coolface Sock #42069]

I'd likely have been an immigrant farmer in Illinois speaking German.

[Green Line]

A poor Irishman living on the Westcoast, bitter over the decline of Irish culture.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I'd likely have been an immigrant farmer in Illinois speaking German.

The one immigrant group legally allowed to support Republicans at the time.

[Murica!]

Probably an early Narodnik in Russia/Shot by the Russian State.

[kyc0705]

I'd be in Korea and I'd probably be dead. Not sure why, just feel like that would be my luck.

[White Trash]

As far as my dysentery riddled tenant farmer's politics, I imagine I'd be part of the local Democratic machine. But I'd have some rather Whiggish tendencies, like support for the American School of economics.

Given that you would be essentially a product of your socioeconomic situation, I'd have to imagine that you'd be predisposed towards opposition to appropriation of your money in the name of building a canal for a couple of industrialists when you've got your own problems to worry about.

Think of it this way, someone has to dig that canal.