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Originally Posted by Spott
I think a lot of people didn't pay much attention to history when they were in school. The last I checked, Missouri wasn't part of the confederacy. Kansas also attempted to become a slave state but was it was blocked by congress in the 1850's.
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Actually the problem was that the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the populace to vote on which to enter the union as. Needless to say besides the home-grown wack jobs, wack jobs on both sides of the question flooded in to "rig" the vote. Take the "true believers" from both sides, send them to a place without well established law enforcement and watch the sparks fly.
You're version of the story is just a bit off.