At least 57% of the state’s population took no part in the secession debates that led South Carolina out of the Union and the festivities that followed on December 20, 1860.
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Well of course since women and slaves could not vote.
Yeah, given that 57% figure, there’s no small irony in the “We, the people of the state of South Carolina” that began the Declaration of Secession!