Not wishing to start another battle on the list over race, slavery, and
the Civil War, I nevertheless pose a question that I have been wondering
about, namely the apparent absence of significant grass-roots resistance
among white southerners to secession.  During the Revolution loyalist
Americans took up arms and joined the forces of the Crown in significant
numbers.  During the Civil War only a few distinct sections of the
South, notably north Alabama and East Tennessee, remained loyal in
spirit and deed to the United States.  I am wondering if there was any
significant public outcry across the South against secession.
Henry Wiencek

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