“The last Secession vote in Texas was only about 66%...”
Wrong. The vote against Secession was only about 18%.
You said — Wrong. The vote against Secession was only about 18%.
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Okay, I posted documentation of it on another thread, but I didn’t do the math. So, this time I did the math.
It was 24.2% against secession and, as the article said, in some areas, the vote against was 40%... So, even back then, it wasn’t as big as you might think. And so — today — you would never get anywhere near that, at all...
On February 23, 1861, Texas went to the polls and voted for or against secession. The results for the state as a whole were 46,153 for and 14,747 against. Of the 122 counties casting votes only eighteen cast majorities against secession. Only eleven others cast as much as 40 percent of their vote against. Not surprisingly, almost all of these twenty-nine counties were located in the two areas where the campaign had been the most open and the Unionist leadership had high status and good organization. With a touch of drama the secession of the state became official on March 2, Texas Independence Day.
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http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/mgs2.html
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