After the Civil war, white southerners tended to vote democratic because ...

A. The Democrats had supported the Confederacy

B. The Democrats promised to bring back slavery

C. Republican candidates supported higher tariffs

D. They associated the Republicans with the party of Lincoln and the Abolitionists

After the Civil War, many southerners support the Democratic party because they associated Republicans with Abraham Lincoln and the Abolitionists. In fact, the Democratic party encouraged southern voters to consider the Republicans as "yankees" who sought to destroy the south and the southern way of live.