[PatrioticAmerican]

"Fully half of the states that seceded were Created by the Union.(in the Louisiana Purchase)... "

Negative. I don't know where you got that, but each State was a vote by the people to create it. The United States Congress did not create by their mandate any state, nor does it have the power to do so.

[hobbes1]

Do you honestly mean to allege, that without The Louisiana Purchase, the people of said French Province would have been free to Vote themselves into the union??????


Hardly.The existing state of freedom was PURCHASED, by the Union, From France, that surely would not have given it up for the whim of it's inhabitants.