(which was true back then too - it was the poor white folks who saw no benefit in fighting for slavery)
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I can imagine, here the attempt to unite three separate colonies (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador) failed...
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ah yeah Gran Colombia under Bolivar right?
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...so I can imagine any sense of regional pride equal or above a national one was deemed suspicious.
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yeah the question of whether the USA was one country or a federation of multiple "states" was open for a while
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