Ideology of conservatism.
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The answer is slavery. The Republicans were anti-slavery, while the democratic south was pro slavery. Eventually that, and a couple of other things, led to the Civil War.
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The US had the strongest Navy and dominated both the Pacific and the Atlantic uncontested; this didn't change throughout the Cold War, even though naval technologies changed a lot (nuclear subs, etc), and the USSR invested heavily in surface and submarine navies.
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