Dear Brent:

The passage is from "None Died in Vain" by Leckie. See if this
explanation fits. The secession vote was taken of the people. Had it
gone to the legislature they would not have had enough votes..??

Diana

Brent Tarter wrote:
>
> It would be helpful to know who wrote the passage about which the question
> arises. But unless somebody can come up with a better explanation or some
> calculations that suggest something else, I suppose that the author of this
> passage believes that the number of southern voters who voted for secession
> during referenda in 1861 was smaller than half of the number of southerners
> who voted in the presidential election of 1860.
>
> It is perhaps a harder question to figure out what conclusion we ought to
> draw from that.
>
> $0.02 worth from
>
> Brent Tarter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diana Bennett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 04 February, 2002 4:50 PM
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> Subject: The Vote to secede
>
> Dear Listers:
>
> Can someone explain the following passage to me? It indicates that a
> small majority won the election, but then it says that no state had a
> majority in the November election?
>
> "The vote of the seven southern states to secede was won by only a
> narrow margin. Only 60-80% of the population voted. And in no state did
> the Secessionists receive a vote large enough to have been a majority in
> the November election."
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> Regards,
>
> Diana Kercheval Bennett
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