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By the 1790s, the young nation's leaders promptly split into warring parties: the New England-centered Federalists and the Southern-based Republicans.
. Partisan reaction was severe: Republicans called Callender a "clot-hearted Scot," and Jefferson himself wrote that "the federalists have opened all their sluices of calumny."
The progressives, like their predecessors among the Mugwumps--the independent-minded Republicans who spurned their party's presidential candidate in 1884--and Liberal Republicans and Whigs and Federalists, have long favored fiscal conservatism.
(For more on the confusing history of U.S. parties, click .) The problem was that each party had different ideas about what the common good entailed: For the Federalists it meant a strong central government, an expanding economy, and the stewardship of an elite ruling class.