With a pod between the state's founding and 1861, how do we make it so the vast majority of Missouri supports secession?
With a pod between the state's founding and 1861, how do we make it so the vast majority of Missouri supports secession?
Without St. Louis, does Missouri have enough people to be a state?The state cedes St. Louis (and some nearby German counties) to Illinois. No, not very realistic, and anyway all it would do would be to practically eliminate the Republican Party in Missouri; there would still be a substantial number of Democrats and Cosnitutional Unionists who would oppose secession (as was true in other Upper South states).
Without St. Louis, does Missouri have enough people to be a state?
Whatever else is managed for the white population, it's going to be hard to get the majority of the slaves and free blacks in favour of secession.With a pod between the state's founding and 1861, how do we make it so the vast majority of Missouri supports secession?
Shit....The Illinois GOP would pay someone to take Chicago.Sure: Missouri had 1,182,012 people in 1860 http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html of whom only 160,773 lived in St. Louis. http://physics.bu.edu/~redner/projects/population/cities/stlouis.html But of course Missouri is not going to give away St. Louis to Illinois any more than Illinois would give Chicago to Indiana.
Shit....The Illinois GOP would pay someone to take Chicago.