What were the Southern Democrats thinking in 1860?
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« on: September 28, 2018, 02:12:47 PM »
Reading the way the Democratic split went down doesn't make a lot of political sense to me. Did they honestly not believe that Lincoln had a chance of winning, or was there already enough secessionist sentiment in the South that they didn't care? Or was it sort of a 'southern pride' thing - that the Northern Democrats needed to be 'taught a lesson' regardless of the consequences?
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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2018, 02:31:38 PM »
They probably didnt care about the results of the election,  as by that point they wanted to secede and just needed an excuse for it.
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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2018, 06:17:25 PM »
Especially in the deep south, they could see the writing on the wall as far as expansion of Southern interests (slavery) in the west was a losing proposition so they used losing 1860 as an excuse to try and burn down the system, take their toys and leave.
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« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2018, 02:58:26 AM »
The crazy thing is that they actually stood a strong chance if the election was throne to the House.
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