[wideawake]

The rather elderly Mr. Yates voted against secession in the Georgia convention and after the rebellion started he continued to boldly speak out for the old Union.

As did many Georgians.

An examination of the actual secession vote in Georgia reveals that the secessionists likely lost the referendum on secession.

It was officially reported as 57.5% for secession and 42.5% against.

The Georgia Historical Society went back over the records because the returns in a number of strongly Unionist counties seemed to have been packed with more secession voters than there were actual voters in the counties.

Dade County claimed fraud at the time.

The GHS estimates the legitimate vote to have been 50.7% for Union and 49.3% for secession.

Had Georgia not seceded, it is unlikely that North Carolina would have seceded either - the war might have ended much sooner with far less bloodshed.

But the Democrat machine in GA fixed the vote.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The Georgia Historical Society went back over the records because the returns in a number of strongly Unionist counties seemed to have been packed with more secession voters than there were actual voters in the counties.

Dade County claimed fraud at the time.

The GHS estimates the legitimate vote to have been 50.7% for Union and 49.3% for secession.

Democrats are well known for stealing elections. The Confederates were true Democrats, the natural ancestors of Landslide Lyndon Johnson. Stolen secessions and shallow enthusiasm got the Confederacy off to a start, but were no substitute for real conviction in 1864-65 when the going got really tough for the CSA. Thus the total collapse.