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Non-slave owning southerners

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skiguy:
What was their reason to fight the north?
I don't know if this is correct or not, but I've read a few places that the majority of southerners were not slave owners.

Phidippides:
Was it not just shared fate?  There must have been high regional sentiments on principle.

donroc:
As I understand it, they loved their State more than the Union. Remember, in 1787-9, they did not know that once a State joined voluntarily, it was in forever according to the Unionists. Mafioso style?

skiguy:
I don't know much at all about the Civil War and it's why I was asking.   I would think the rich slaveowners employed and bought from the other southernerns?  Maybe they were just protecting their own interests. 

scout1067:
Yes, you are correct that most white southerners were not slaveowners.  As to motivation to fight, I have read several explanations, the most common being State loyalty and hoping to preserve slavery because most aspired to be slaveowners as well.

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