Board Thread:New on Alternative History/@comment-72.185.4.15-20130303025444/@comment-32656-20130305132839

Not like you think. The "alienation" came down to the Southern Dems wanting a "southern" ticket, and the Northern Dems wanting a compromise. It broke apart rather peacefully after a lengthy deadlock.

The Southern states - absolutely none of them - would have done so. It's not an idea - but an impossibility.

These Southern states actually threatened to do this if Lincoln won. Not Douglas. The idea that they would have done so had he won is ludicrous, at best.