Alexander Hamilton (F-NY) vs. Andrew Mellon (R-PA)

[A18]

What's a map look like?

[Virginian87]

Hamilton would win the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Pacific coast, and the Midwest, maybe Florida and Texas.  His Bank of the United States and federalist ideas would not be popular with anti-government types and libertarians.

I'd still think he'd win the election.

[jokerman]

Alexander Hamilton would sweep the South, remember the federalists were the religious right of the times.  Of course, there was the affair with Maria Reynolds, but regardless.

[Virginian87]

It all depends if the election is about economics or social issues.  I think the South might see him as big-government.  Actually, except for the coastal areas and cities like Charleston and Savannah, most of the Southern states of the 1790s were in the Democratic-Republican territory.  James Madison and Thomas Jefferson strongly opposed the creation of the BUS and the resulting federal assumption of Revolutionary war debts.  Take a look at the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.

[Colin]

Alexander Hamilton would sweep the South, remember the federalists were the religious right of the times.  Of course, there was the affair with Maria Reynolds, but regardless.

I don't see how you come to that conclusion. Adams was a Unitarian and I believe that Hamilton was never affliated with any church, IIRC. The Federalists were not the religious right they were just the party of a more centralized government. How you get religious right out of that is crazy. I think you need to have a look at what both the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists stood for. I don't think either of those parties could be called "religious right" or Populist in any way.

[Virginian87]

Hamilton was episcopal.

[Colin]

Hamilton was episcopal.

Thank you I wasn't 100% sure if he was part of a church or not.