Taken from A History of the Republic by Adam Walter Prescott:
Unfortunately for Jefferson, the French attacks angered many throughout the colonies, but especially in the Northern coastal areas, where much of the economy rested on shipping. These states, including Massachusetts, saw war as the only way to secure their businesses against destruction. But they were out of sympathy with the states to the south, for those states had built their economies on agriculture. It was in these southern states, and the western territories, that Jefferson's Democratic-Republican party had its support.
Taken from Dark Times for a Young Nation by William David Stone:
Jefferson was personally attached to France. He viewed it as the new standard-bearer of liberty, which had taken the torch from the United States. Many in his party were also of this opinion; to them the radical republic was a testament to the universal appeal of freedom and liberty. But Jefferson's capability to enforce this view on the nation was being undermined from within; the source of this was his own vice president, John Adams.
Adams was a Federalist, a party based primarily in the northern states of the Union, and he was opposed to France. Not out of some reactionary ideology, Adams was just as much a patriot as any other, but because he was a patriot in the modern sense: a nationalist. He found the French actions to be working against the good of his nation (or at least a part of his nation) and did not want to tolerate such things, never mind how republican the French were.