Abstract
Patronage plays a larger role in the politics of most cities and states in the northeastern quadrant of the United States than it does in the western half.' In this article, I attempt to account for this difference in the character of party politics in these two important regions of the country.2 I will argue that these regional differences in American politics are an enduring legacy of the way political order was restored in the United States after the Civil War and Reconstruction. The third American party system was the central institution through which political stabilization was achieved after the upheavals of the 1860s and early 1870s, and patronage played a pervasive role in party politics in all regions of the nation at the time.3 However, the party organizations
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