He won his home state of Maryland.
Fillmore was from New York, not Maryland. He won Maryland due to it's strong anti-Catholicsm block.
funny considering how strongly Catholic Maryland is now. I would rank Fillmore as one of the worst men ever to be president for his run on that ticket alone. One of the most dispicable parties in American history.
Maryland has always been strongly Catholic. It was foudned by Lord Baltimore, a Catholic, who was sent to the New World because the King didn't want any Catholic lords in the Isles.
Wrong! It was strongly Catholic for about two seconds. Then Lord Baltimore was forced to admit Protestants because he was getting ruined on the profit charts. There was frequent violence btween the groups and the Catholics (only about 5% of the colonies population by 1650) were constantly being harased by the Protestant majority. In 1655, Protestants boarded a Catholic congregation in their church while mass was being performed and set fire to the builing, killing all inside. They then did the same thing to a near-by abbey. The nuns knelt on their knees and prayed while being burned alive. Three nuns escaped to the outside and were shot on sight. Catholics were eventually barred from voting by the overwhealming Protestant majority. Protestants eventually rose up to over throw the Catholic proprietors of Maryland and installed a Protestant government.
