Only about 14% of the voters backed the Southern Dem in 1860, and hardly anyone actually voted for secession. There were also large minorities of anti-slavery southerners and pro-slavery northerners. None of that made the war avoidable.
Public Health, Sometimes 🇺🇦I think the lines really coming down around rural/urban divides and the sheer lack of popular interest in the kind of intense interpersonal violence that would be necessary for this kind of thing, really seems to limit our movement in that direction.