Normally in democratic
societies, if you don’t like the election results, you regroup and try harder
to win in the next election cycle. Not so in 1860.
Voters in slave holding
states split their vote between three candidates, leading to Lincoln’s election
in 1860. For most voters in the South, Lincoln was an illegitimate president.
They didn’t like the Republican party’s opposition to the spread of slavery
westward, and they thought Lincoln would take measures toward the end of slavery.
Instead of regrouping and
trying harder to win in 1864, a number of Southern states declared secession.
Glad this sort of thing hasn’t ever happened since then.
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