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According To The 1860 Census, Nearly 350,000 Native Northerners Resided In A Southern State By The Time Of The Civil War. Although Northern In Birth And Upbringing, Many Of These Men And Women Identified With Their Adopted Section Once They Moved South. In This Innovative Study, David Ross Zimring Examines What Motivated These Americans To Change Sections, Support (or Not) The Confederate Cause, And, In Many Cases, Rise To Considerable Influence In Their New Homeland. By Analyzing The Lives Of Northern Emigrants In The South, Zimring Deepens Our Understanding Of The Nature Of Sectional Identity As Well As The Strength Of Confederate Nationalism. Focusing On A Representative Sample Of Emigrants, Zimring Identifies Two Subgroups: “adoptive Southerners,” Individuals Born And Raised In A State Above The Mason-dixon Line But Who But Did Not Necessarily Join The Confederacy After They Moved South, And “northern Confederates,” Emigrants Who Sided With The Confederacy During The Civil War. After Analyzing Statistical Data On States Of Origin, Age, Education, Decade Of Migration, And, Most Importantly, The Reasons Why These Individuals Embarked For The South In The First Place, Zimring Goes

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Author

Zimring, David Ross

Publisher

The University of Tennessee Press, The University of Tennessee Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781621901068

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14