rightwinger
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Or the fact that it was the south who seceeded before Lincoln ever took office.
While historically and technically correct, your argument is intellectually dishonest. You are trying to give the impression that the election of '60 did not figure into the calculus of the South's secession. This is simply not true.
Yes, the south seceded before he was inaugurated, but they seceded because he was elected.
Election results were announced in November of '60. South Carolina seceded in December, and most of the rest followed suit in January. A few waited until after Fort Sumter to secede. The reason they seceded so soon after the election? A republican (Lincoln) was elected.
That was the point I was trying to make. They did not seceed because of anything that Lincoln did but because of fearmongering (sounds familiar) over what Lincoln might do. Sort of like what Texas is threatening today