Quote (thesnipa @ Feb 3 2020 09:23am)
southerners still havent learned you can't just vote to secede? how much blood will it take before they get it?
How do you think west virginia was created in the first place? The breakaway counties wanted to secede from the confederate state but were forbidden by the state constitution without consent of the government, so when the state seceded, the union formally recognized a rump government, declared the confederate government void and permitted the secession of west virginia from the secessionist state. They held a vote on seceding the state in which union soldiers and federal agents were stationed at polls and told to arrest (confederate) secessionists and intern them in prison camps.