LP:> Good point, generally speaking. But keep in mind that the DP at its birth did consciously appeal to northern workers. Jacksonian democracy--so to speak--was a multiclass alliance cobbled together from workers, slave owners and western farmers. Here's an excerpt from a wsws.org article that owes much to Harry Frankel's (Braverman) intrepretation...<
one comment: Northern workers at the time of Jackson were still in the process of proletarianization. Many or even most were craft workers who were sometimes in guild-like craft unions. They were in many ways still "independent entrepreneurs" or small businesspeople. John C. Calhoun in many ways was prescient about these workers' proletarian fate, which was sealed around the time of the Civil War. (At Yale, my "college" (i.e., dorm) was named after Calhoun. There was a stained-glass window of the bastard. Somehow, the parts of the window that showed his slaves had been replaced by clear glass. You could only see their feet.) Jim Devine
