Reply #7: It's my understanding that if the Southern voters had been a little

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more patient, the right of the Southern Sates to secede would have been confirmed by a Supreme Court dominated by Southerners.



Here's a thought experiment: What if the Southern States had seceded peacefully? Would they have been able to maintain control of the areas above the cotton line where slavery wasn't viable? Or would the mountain counties have seceded as did West Virginia?