<span>Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus, or the right to be brought before a judge to tell what one is being charged with, in the border states during the beginning of the civil war in order to prevent them from seceding. He considered it necessary for the preservation of the union.</span>
The Southern ambivalence to its values and the republican stance of Lincoln being against the values thus thought made the South fall into the hands of Democrats.
Explanation:
The Democrats of the recent age have a strenuous grasp on the country's south at best but this was not the case in the post civil war US when the South was extremely agitated.
The South was agitated against the republicans due to their own notions of an ideal southern value which was forsaken by the republicans.
So they began voting for candidates from the Democratic party in passive numbers in the elections after the civil war happened in the response to the war time plight
