South Carolina’s decision to depart the Union was accepted by most northerners until South Carolina later reduced its import tariff from 48% to 10%. Northern commercial interests suddenly saw their captive southern market not only disappear but go to France and England. Lincoln was negotiating the terms of secession BEFORE that vote in the South Carolina legislature. When the tariff was reduced, everything changed and northern newspapers, once accepting secession, demanded war! The Republican Party, abolitionists aside and being the distinct minority, agreed war was necessary (to protect northern commercial interests). I don’t hate Lincoln, I just love the truth more.
I don’t know where you are from, or where you were raised,
but I trace my roots to Colonial Georgia prior to the Revolution.
“The Party of Lincoln” is why the south voted democrat for generations.
My mama is still living, born 1920.
She was orphaned at age 8, and was raised by her grandfather, born 1867,
he was the son of a Confederate veteran.
Oh, the stories that she was told...and then told to me...
It really was not all that long ago, in the great scheme of things.