And in some states it was almost *half* the white population.
civil-war.net/pages/1860_cen…
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In countless speeches and the formal declarations of secession, these states made it clear they were seceding to protect slavery.
Probably because more than 4% were involved with it directly?
battlefields.org/learn/primary-…