'Ballot Banishers' – 2023 Democrats & 1861 Confederates ‘Ballot Banishers’ – 2023 Democrats & 1861 Confederates Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, In the election of 1860, southern Democrats in 10 states of the soon-to-be formalized Confederacy made it almost impossible for their own voters to cast ballots for Abraham Lincoln for President. In that sense, …