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Though antebellum Louiiana hared the ret of the outh' commitment to lavery and cotton, the preence of a ubtantial ugarcane indutry, large Creole and Catholic population, numerou foreign and northern immigrant, and the immene city of New Orlean made it perhap the mot unouthern of outhern tate. John M. acher' A Perfect War of Politic explore why Louiiana joined it neighbor in eceding from the Union in early 1861 and offer the firt comprehenive tudy of the tate' antebellum political partie and their interaction with the electorate. acher how that, although civic participation expanded beyond the…mehr

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Though antebellum Louiiana hared the ret of the outh' commitment to lavery and cotton, the preence of a ubtantial ugarcane indutry, large Creole and Catholic population, numerou foreign and northern immigrant, and the immene city of New Orlean made it perhap the mot unouthern of outhern tate. John M. acher' A Perfect War of Politic explore why Louiiana joined it neighbor in eceding from the Union in early 1861 and offer the firt comprehenive tudy of the tate' antebellum political partie and their interaction with the electorate. acher how that, although civic participation expanded beyond the elite from 1824 to 1861, Louiiana remained a "white men' democracy." Ultimately, he explain, an obeion with defending white men' liberty led Louiiana' politician to upport eceion. acher' welcome tudy provide a freh, gra-root perpective on the political caue of the Civil War and confirm the dominant role regional politic played in antebellum Louiiana.
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John M. Sacher is an assistant professor of history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.