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To: FreedomCalls
Would you care to guess how many popular votes Lincoln got in the South? Not electoral votes (he got none of those of course) but popular votes. How many people (individuals) voted for Lincoln in the states that seceeded?

I do recall reading somewhere one remarkable fact: that Lincoln did not get one single voter - as in one voter - in five southern states.

A stunning fact if you think about it.

I imagine he got very few votes in the eight other slave states.

79 posted on 02/17/2003 7:41:23 PM PST by The Iguana
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To: The Iguana
A stunning fact if you think about it.

Not really, when you consider that he wasn't on the ballot in 6 of the 7 original seceding states. The seventh, South Carolina, didn't hold presidential elections at all.

162 posted on 02/20/2003 6:41:27 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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