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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's some of why East Tennessee and West Virginia sided with the Union in the Civil War, too.

It wasn't uncommon at the time.

[โ€“] PP_BOY_ 1 points 6 months ago

East TN, West(ern) VA (West Virginia, the state, was admitted to the Union as a breakaway from Virginia State in 1863), and West NC didn't really benefit from slavery like the rest of their states. There were plenty of independence/Pro-Union movements in that region at the time, like The State of Scott.