Bird-brain shows his ignorance once again with the foolish statement, “Once the Southern states were out, they couldn’t have cared in the least about expansion into the Western states.”
Had he ever read anything more than dilorenzo he would know that agents of the confederacy were active in every state and territory throughout the west and northwest. The insinuated themselves into local politics and agitated for admission to the little rebellion.
And yes, they wanted their slaves to accompany them wherever they wandered.
Had roksinhishead ever bothered to read, he would have noticed that the Southern states were quite content to leave without ever claiming any of the Western territories. Obviously they weren’t interested once they no longer needed votes in the Senate to prevent themselves from being exploited even more than they already were by the Northern state.