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IOTL, the state of Texas came close to seceding during the American Civil War. Fortunately, Sam Houston successfully campaigned to keep the state in the Union. What would happen if Texas had joined the CSA?
IOTL, the state of Texas came close to seceding during the American Civil War. Fortunately, Sam Houston successfully campaigned to keep the state in the Union. What would happen if Texas had joined the CSA?
I just can't see it... I mean, you had Sam Houston of all people speaking against leaving the Union, that was the nail in the coffin for any attempt by Texas to join the CSA.
Yea, Sam Houston would have formed a Unionist government-in-exile if Texas had decided to secede with the support of said groups of people.Texas has always been a large ethnic mix of Anglos, German settlers, Hispanic Tejanos and even native Apache and Commanche who were close to integrated at least in the German hill country. Many of those groups were if not abolitionist, then at least pro-union. I shudder at the thoughts of all of them being forced into the Confederate kaste system. Before too long, Texas would have its own civil war and the confederacy would have to send more troops to Fredericksburg then it did to Shiloh...