Re: Help design the ideal Presidential candidate

In message <ddfr-ED5F26.10430109052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, David 
Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>The argument obviously runs into trouble in states where the blacks were
>a majority, if there were some, as there well may have been.
>

There were two states where slaves made up a majority of the population, 
South Carolina was 57% slave and Mississippi was 55% slave.

Slave State     Slaves

South Carolina  57%
Mississippi     55%
Georgia         48%
Louisiana       47%
Alabama         45%
Florida         44%
North Carolina  33%
Virginia        31%
Texas           30%
Arkansas        28%
Tennessee       25%
Kentucky        20%
Maryland        13%
Missouri        10%
Delaware        2%

It is fairly unlikely that any significant number of slaves would have 
supported secession and in most cases the number of slaves would have 
been much larger than the secessionist lead over the unionists in the 
free population, in those states where there was a secessionist 
majority.
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