It's rich of you to call everyone else's statement false when you're the one promoting ignoring the primary texts including the declarations of secession of the

It's rich of you to call everyone else's statement false when you're the one promoting ignoring the primary texts including the declarations of secession of the states in favor of your hypothetical 15-decade-later mindreading. But all your questions have answers if you actually looked shit up instead of being suckered into being a mouthpiece for historical revisionism to deflect attention from the sins of the past. West Virginia split because they didn't want to secede. Did they want to stay because of economic reasons? It doesn't really matter to this question, the war was started by states secession, so the reason for the first move is what matters. Maryland and Delaware were further north and less dominated by slave-holders than the states that did secede. Anti-slavery sentiment in the pre-war US was very geographically distributed, after all. It was actively debated and voted on, but it didn't carry the day. Especially Delaware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delaware#Delaware_in_the_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delaware#Delaware_i... "Slavery had been a divisive issue in Delaware for decades before the American Civil War began. Opposition to slavery in Delaware, imported from Quaker-dominated Pennsylvania, led many slaveowners to free their slaves; half of the state's black population was free by 1810, and more than 90% were free by 1860."