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What prevented planter elites from exercising complete political dominance over the Cotton South in the 1830s and 1840s?

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Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the main factor that prevented this was the fact that planter elites lived in a republican society with democratic institutions that required the opinions and eventual decisions from all white men. Therefore preventing them from applying complete political dominance.

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