On one hand there were the liberal Democrats who were traditional in their beliefs and then there were the conservative Democrats who did not align with the National Democratic Parties philosophies on multiple topics. The infighting between these two groups within the Democratic Party made it so that Conservative Democrats felt more aligned to the Republicans of their state than their own party. Due to the fact that Conservative Democrats leaned more towards the Republican Party then their own they started splintering off and joining the Republican Party. Another consequence of the one-party system was corruption in elections, this happened due to many of the political organization usually was based on personal ties and the actual personal popularity of the person running for office (Harpham Champagne