1889 Dixieland Presidential Election (Deo Vindice)

The 1889 Dixieland Presidential Election was the eigth quadrennial presidential election in the Dixieland Confederation, held on wednesday November 6th, 1881. This was held after the Mexican-Dixie War, and was the first time the democratic party lost an election they participated in

Background
The previous president Benjamin g. Humphreys had signed the Treaty of Shreveport with Mexico which ended the Mexican-Dixie war and gave the confederacy several gains from mexico, aswell as making mexico and central america client states, Humphreys also took cuba, and thus the opposition to the Democrats were now credited with winning the war, mainly the whigs due to the fact that the Southern Constitution Party decided not to field a candidate

Whig Nomination
Being the main opposition now due to the Southern Constitutionalists not fielding a candidate, they had high hopes that they would finally win a presidential election, and so wanted to nominate a veteran of politics, so they Nominated Francis Lubbock for president and Joseph E. Brown for vice president

Democratic Nomination
The Democrats were in a trance seeing the posibility that they might lose an election for the first time, and wanted to nominate someone popular, so they ended up going with The "Common Man of Mississippi" James Z. George for president, they nominated Clifton Breckenridge (Son of 1869 Southern Constitutionalist Vice Presidential Candidate John C. Breckenridge) for Vice President

Campaign
The Main issue of the day was what to do with the newley acquired lands, The Democrats wanted to leave it be whilst the Whigs wanted to settle the area with whites until it became a state

Results
For the first time ever the Democrats lost the election, and by a Landslide, winning just 43 Electoral Votes compared to the 119 Electoral Votes the whig candidate got.