Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

Douglas ( and Atchison ) had assumed that Nebraska would be settled by Free-State men from Iowa and Illinois, and Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians and other Southerners, thus preserving the numerical balance between free states and slave states.

Southerners sought support from neighboring states and received billions of dollars of equipment and financial assistance, mostly from Saudi Arabia, which felt threatened by a united Yemen.

Southerners sought support from neighboring states and received billions of dollars of equipment and financial assistance, mostly from Saudi Arabia, which felt threatened during Gulf War in 1991 when Yemen supported Saddam Hussien.

In ten states, coalitions of freedmen, recent black and white arrivals from the North ( carpetbaggers ), and white Southerners who supported Reconstruction ( scalawags ) cooperated to form Republican biracial state governments.

The fact that a majority of residents of Texas and Oklahoma -- unlike those in other " Southwestern " states -- self-identify as living in the South and considering themselves Southerners -- rather than the West and Westerners -- also lends to treating these two states as a somewhat distinct and separate entity in terms of regional classification.

In a letter to his wife ( Amelia Alcorn, née Glover, of Rosemount Plantation in southern Alabama ), he states that Southerners must make the Negro their friend or " the path ahead will be red with blood and damp with tears.

After the Civil War, many Northern Republicans, whom Southerners called carpetbaggers, came to the defeated Southern states to work in the rebuilding process.

As a result of 1867-68 elections, the newly empowered freedmen, in coalition with carpetbaggers ( Northerners who had recently moved south ) and Scalawags ( white Southerners who supported Reconstruction ), set up Republican governments in 10 Southern states ( all but Virginia ).

The historian James McPherson noted that Southerners were inconsistent on the states ' rights issue, and that Northern states tried to protect the rights of their states against the South during the Gag Rule and fugitive slave law controversies.

To many Southerners, the resounding defeat of the Lecompton Constitution foreshadowed the entry of more free states into the Union.

Qualifications of its own Members ," had excluded Southerners from Congress, declaring that their states, having rebelled against the Union, could therefore not elect members to Congress.

It was this fact — the fact that the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted by a " rump " Congress — that allowed the equal protection clause, which white Southerners almost uniformly hated, to be passed by Congress and proposed to the states.

The eleven Southern states that seceded and fought against the USA in the American Civil War: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia ; still used affectionately by Southerners.

After the war, Sheridan was one of a group of Northern officials who moved in to administer the defeated Southern states ( often derisively referred to by Southerners as " carpetbaggers ").

In 1850 Southerners pushed through a new Fugitive Slave Act that required states to support enforcement and increased the penalties for those aiding escaped slaves.

The differences between Federalist views in favor of a strong national government and Democratic-Republican views on the primacy of the states played a prominent role in the election-taxation became an issue as Southerners and Westerners rejected federal taxes levied on property.

He discussed the history of slavery, his belief in the hypocrisy of northern states with regard to the practice considering that most northern states had once allowed slavery and that all derived major income from trade goods produced by slaves, and the unfairness that he ( and most other Southerners ) saw in the numerous acts and policies that benefited northern industrialists to the detriment of Southern planters.

On 16 February 1959, a revolt organized by Opangault and his MSA erupted in clashes along tribal lines between Southerners, supporting Youlou, and people from the North, loyal to the MSA.

Indiana, whose area along the Ohio River was settled by Southerners, passed a constitutional amendment that barred blacks from settling in that state.

Howard was one of several counties settled mostly by Southerners along the Missouri River in the central part of the state.

Fitzhugh, along with a number of southern writers, used the term to differentiate Southerners from Northerners, based on the dichotomy that Southerners were supposedly descendents of Normans / Cavaliers whereas Northerners were descendents of Anglo-Saxons / Puritans.

This arrangement, popular in the towns along the lower Los Angeles and San Gabriel rivers, proved particularly attractive to the Southerners and Midwesterners who were leaving their struggling farms in droves in the 1910s and 1920s to start new lives in Southern California.

The restrictive Black Codes, along with the few segregation laws passed by the first postwar governments, did not survive Reconstruction ," Leon F. Litwack wrote in Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow, the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning history Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.

Southerners settled along the southern part of the territory, as they traveled mostly by the Ohio River.

His assumption seems to be that any such friends, being tolerable humans, must be more liberal than most Southerners and therefore at least partly in sympathy with his views.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

Brown met with a campaign of resistance from white Southerners, and for decades the federal courts attempted to enforce Brown's mandate against repeated attempts at circumvention.

Although Southerners disliked the New Yorker Van Buren as well as his intended running mate, Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky, Van Buren secured the nomination at a meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, at the 1835 Democratic National Convention.

After firing a few shots at the advancing Union troops, the Southerners broke lines and began running frantically to the south, some still in their bed clothes.

Ordinary Southerners wrote to President Grant at the White House describing the terrible conditions of violence and fear they lived under during these times.

After firing a few shots at the advancing Union troops, the Southerners broke lines and began running frantically to the south, some still in their bed clothes.

On at least one occasion, she stated that white Southerners should " lynch a thousand men a week if it becomes necessary " to " protect woman's dearest possession.

In 1865 at the end of the American Civil War a substantial number of American Southerners left the South ; many moved to other parts of the United States, such as the American West, but a few left the country entirely.

JSU is also nationally recognized for its marching band, the Marching Southerners, which performs before thousands each year at marching exhibitions, football games, and parades.

The tariff had been written and approved by the South, so it was mostly Northerners ( especially in Pennsylvania ) who complained about the low rates ; some Southerners feared that eventually the North would have enough control it could raise the tariff at will.

" An American example was the change in the voting patterns among white Southerners, who from the 1870s to 1962 had overwhelmingly voted at the national and state levels for Democratic ( what was called the " Solid South ").

In sum, carpetbaggers were seen as insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices and taking advantage of Southerners.

Those who were armed fired a few shots at the advancing bluecoats, then Southerners broke and began running to the south, some still in their bed clothes.

Although the Southerners gained tactical successes at the Battle of New Hope Church, the Battle of Pickett's Mill, and the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, they were unable to counter Sherman's superior numbers.

The Democratic dominance of the South originated in many white Southerners ' animosity towards the Republican Party's stance in favor of political rights for blacks during Reconstruction and Republican economic policies such as the high tariff and the support for continuing the gold standard, both of which were seen as benefiting Northern industrial interests at the expense of the agrarian South in the 19th century.

Southerners were upset at the Proviso because they saw it as an attack upon their constitutional rights and their entire society.

Lee's tactical brilliance at Second Bull Run and Chancellorsville took on legendary status, and despite his accepting full responsibility for the defeat at Gettysburg, Lee remained largely infallible for Southerners and was spared criticism even from historians until recent times.

Following the Tariff of 1828, referred to by Southerners as the " Tariff of Abominations ", Calhoun wrote ( anonymously at the time ) the South Carolina Exposition and Protest.

One afternoon, while changing a tire on the tour bus, a pair of racist Southerners drive by shooting at them with a shotgun, and David and Eddie try in vain to chase them down, but quickly give up.