An absurdly large amount of 19th century American political history is every political party in the two largest states (NY & Pennsylvania) splitting into factions over who gets to keep the patronage & graft.
NY Democrats alone had three different factions in the 1850s.
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I'm not disputing that, but patronage affected more than just those two states. By the late 1800s, Ohio and Illinois weren't that far behind Pennsylvania in population, either.
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