What was the logic behind the southern states leaving the union?
The elite families in the coastal cities of New England wanted to dictate to the elite families of the rural South how they should live their lives. The northern snobs felt that slavery should be abolished, and the southern snobs wondered how the north expected them to run their plantations without cheap labor, especially since the northern snobs were using the very same cheap labor as indentured servants, treating them just as poorly as their claimed the southern snobs did. Meanwhile, a lot of southern snobs were actually treating their slaves pretty well. It wasn’t all whips and chains and horror stories. There were a lot of slaves who were treated so well by their masters that they faught right alongside them during the war. So it became a matter of a majority vote in the northern cities, millions of people convinced by the northern elite snobs, vs. a much smaller population vote in the southern towns. And when the northerners insisted the southerners just do what the majority wante
