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Because secessionist feeling ran more strongly in the deep South.

In the slave-states of the Upper South, more people were against secession.

Of those eight states, four seceded after the Battle of Fort Sumter, and the other four remained loyal by a fairly narrow margin. They were known as the Border States.

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