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Some Southern whites saw an advantage in supporting the Republicans and the Reconstruction. They were referred to as scalawags.
They are all republican
Lincoln's name was not on the ballot because, the Republican Party did not even exist in Louisiana, and Lincoln was a Republican.
After the US Civil War, many poor white farmers became sharecroppers, farming land owned by the wealthy planters in exchange for a percentage of their crop's yield.
The name for white people is "Caucasian"