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To: jhild who wrote (13251)	10/6/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Yet with mundane prophetic pre-positioning genetics, Fate (or The Good Lord) managed to place only Separatists in the South and Unionists in the North. It was a li'l hedgy at the border states, but the rest of 'em fanned out right. Like cotton and apples. Geographic politics, inherent in the genome. Amazing. But apparently true. (No hostility intended.) I guess I don't see how they gather up a majority of people, with conscience, in either location.

To: jhild who wrote (13251)	10/6/1998 9:39:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I dunno. Maryland was a tobacco growing State and generally shared the culture of Virginia. Lincoln didn't receive a single electoral college vote south of the Mason-Dixon line, including both Maryland and Delaware. His inaugural train made stops in all the major cities from Springfield to Washington, and ceremonies were held. But he was smuggled through Maryland for fear that his train would be attacked and Lincoln would be abducted or assassinated. Marylanders who supported secession just waded the Potomac to join Beauregard and Johnston. In Mississippi there was a county that refused to secede, Jones County, and during the war they declared themselves the Free State of Jones. And of course western Virginia broke off from the Old Dominion in the middle of the war and was declared a separate State.