Many thanks to Julia for the official definition of the border states
as Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, and for telling us that
West Virginia, which was clearly `on the border', voted in the Union
elections.
Thanks also to Dan Minette for the count from those states that voted,
although the value does not tell us how many were eligible. We could
try to estimate that, but there are difficulties. For example, slaves
could not vote, yet they were a large part of some states'
populations.
In short, we still need to learn how many would have been eligible to
vote in the United States elections in the `troubled areas' had there
not been an insurgency.
As Julia said, `none of the states in the Confederacy participated in
the Electoral College.' That means that none of the people in those
states voted. This portion is even less than the 2% who are said to
have voted in Sunni areas in Iraq. On the other hand, many voted in
places such as Missouri.
So what is the number of people would have been eligible to vote in
the Confederacy, had they been able to vote?
Should we count the 21,000 votes from Kansas? I think we should.
Based on what Dan said, with the addition of Kansas and West Virginia
to the `border states',
Delaware 17
Kansas 21
Kentucky 92
Maryland 73
Missouri 104
West Virginia 35
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342,000 people voted.
But that does not tell us how many out of those who lived in those
states plus the Confederate states were or would have been eligible to
vote. So we cannot yet compare that number to the portion who voted
in the Sunni areas of Iraq.
The question is what percent of eligible voters living in what a
diplomat might refer to as `troubled areas' did vote during an
insurrection when the powers-that-were prevented or tried to prevent
some people from voting in an election of one side?
--
Robert J. Chassell
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