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Southerners believed his warnings and read every political news story from the North as further evidence of the planned destruction of the southern way of life.

The climax was the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860, which led immediately to the secession of South Carolina, followed by six other cotton states.

They formed the new Confederate States of America, which, in accord with Calhoun's theory, did not have any political parties.