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Interesting map but not detailed enough. In the state I live in Arkansas, all voted for secession except Benton and Madison Counties. The state decided they needed a 100 % secession vote so had another vote. Someone in Madison County said something disparaging about Benton County that they so infuriated them they voted pro Secession. That left Madison County against. The State decided Madison County’s vote did not count so secession was decided on.

As for what the map calls “Unorganized Territory” was the Indian Territory. They had no say in the matter but when war broke out they went with the South. the few who chose not to secede joined with John Ross, chief of the Cherokees and fled to Union Territory. All others joined with Stand Watie another Cherokee chief who became the last Confederate General to lay down his arms.

The tribes that made or were negotiating treaties with the Confederacy.
Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Comanches, Wachitas, Kiowas, Pottawattamies, Chickasaws, Osages,
Seminoles, Senecas, Shawnees, Quawpaws.
The South also had Indian agents operating all throughout the High Plains and mountain region stirring up other tribes such as the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Navajo and Apaches to make war on the Union at that time.
Their traditional enemies, Pawnee, Kaw, Osage (well, most of them) remained loyal to the Union.
The pro-Union Osages wiped out a party of Confederate officers heading for Colorado. On them were found instructions to...
#1, encourage southerners in Colorado to join the Confederate army.....and
#2, ENCOURAGE THE INDIAN TRIBES TO ATTACK SETTLERS IN THE KANSAS-COLORADO AREA.
That party was wiped out. Who knows how many other Confederate parties made it through with the same instructions.
“There is little doubt that the recent outbreak in the Northwest (Minnesota Uprising) has resulted from the efforts of secession agents operating through Canadian Indians and fur-traders.”—Mr Giddings, US Counsul-general in Canada