Re watie see below from his own prior postings on the Ranchino issue:
Lincoln’s 'Great Crime': The Arrest Warrant for the Chief Justice
Posted by stand watie to capitan_refugio
On Smoky Backroom 09/20/2004 7:23:28 AM PDT · 1,565 of 3,012
"in point of fact, a doctoral dissertation done at the Univ of MN (Actually is Univ Wisconsin / Madison) by James A. Ranchino in the 1960s said that the CORRECT figure was 5-6% of southerners, which was about the same percentage as that of the northerners who owned slaves.
as i'm NOT at home & thus have no access to my library, i can't give you more documentation than that now.
i was privileged to take some grad classes under Jim Ranchino in the 1970s."
You can note watie "allegedly" took grad courses under James Ranchino but James "Jim" Ranchino 1936-1978 taught in Arkansas (Ouachita Baptist University) and lived for a time in Louisiana. Watie concurrently "went" to Tulane and Auburn for his "grad" work....neither are in Arkansas. Draw your own conclusions from the oddity of these claims.
You might want to ask him for the proof on that number now that he likely is home and can reference his library for that dissertation (not published that I can find).
Nice find! I knew that was in there somewhere.