Different Approach to Secession

[rbortega]

How different do you think the secession of the Southern states in 1860-1861 have been if secession had been decided entirely by popular vote instead of state conventions? Would the outcome have been the same?

 

[E_just_E]

How different do you think the secession of the Southern states in 1860-1861 have been if secession had been decided entirely by popular vote instead of state conventions? Would the outcome have been the same?

TN, VA, and TX had public referenda that ratified secession, so at least in these 3 States, one can assume that it would pass...

 

[UCVRelics]

How different do you think the secession of the Southern states in 1860-1861 have been if secession had been decided entirely by popular vote instead of state conventions? Would the outcome have been the same?

YEP.

 

[thomas aagaard]

Yep.

For a real Difference SC should not have said" we are out of the union"
They should have gone to Congress and said "we want to leave, lets find a way where we can do so in a peaceful way"

 

[photoman475]

Thomas. that might have worked if the Southern representatives had stayed in Congress and tried that approach. But they didn't, they resigned and left when their respective states said they were out. Thus, the one approach that might have been considered by the North and prevented the bloodshed was not tried. We will never know what might have happened.

 

[thomas aagaard]

It was SC who decided on this way of solving the fact that they lost a legal election... giving the finger to the rest of the states and then starting the shooting war.