Always funny to me when I read about how West Virginia came to be… because they were so poor that no one had slaves, and thus nothing to fight for. They split from Virginia because of it, and unseceded. Now of course if you go there, CSA flags aplenty, because fuck learning history we got black lung disease to get.
Most of Appalachia was a Unionist stronghold for that reason. Not good plantation land, so slaver power never set down deep roots - and unlike some morons in the modern day, folk at the time understood goddamn well that the war was being waged for the sake of slavery. Most Appalachian counties in the CSA offered some amount of partisan resistance during the Civil War for that very reason. If you’re gonna risk death without any hope of gain for you or your’s, may as well do it resisting a bad cause, rather than serving it.
Always funny to me when I read about how West Virginia came to be… because they were so poor that no one had slaves, and thus nothing to fight for. They split from Virginia because of it, and unseceded. Now of course if you go there, CSA flags aplenty, because fuck learning history we got black lung disease to get.
Most of Appalachia was a Unionist stronghold for that reason. Not good plantation land, so slaver power never set down deep roots - and unlike some morons in the modern day, folk at the time understood goddamn well that the war was being waged for the sake of slavery. Most Appalachian counties in the CSA offered some amount of partisan resistance during the Civil War for that very reason. If you’re gonna risk death without any hope of gain for you or your’s, may as well do it resisting a bad cause, rather than serving it.