And another item I didn’t know about until just the other day was that, in the early days of the Confederacy, Virginia’s delegates considering the matter of secession were actually 2:1 against it. Then VP Stephens came and gave his “Cornerstone” speech, making owning slaves out as a “right,” but arguing that it was a matter of ensuring the superiority of the white race. Within days of that speech, Virginia had voted overwhelmingly to secede.