14 Adam’s support included Delaware, Maryland, parts of North Carolina.
15 The Jacksonians have been interpreted as a class movement, (Schlesinger), a frontier phenomenon (Turner), yeomen farmers (Beard), small capitalists and “incipient entrepreneurs” (Hofstadter-Hammond), nostalgic neo-Jeffersonians (Meyers), “Old Republicans,” (McCormick fils), moral crusaders for honesty in government (Remini), professional politicians on the make (White), and as an ethno-religious group (Benson, Formisano). Every one of these interpretations adds something to our understanding of this complex phenonomenon. But there is room for another idea of the Jacksonians as a coalition of regional cultures.
16 Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address of Andrew Jackson to the People of the United States … (Washington, 1837).