Maine

Strangely, Alaska is the state farthest north, east, and west and Hawaii is farthest south.

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This created a massive influx of non-Floridians into the state. The Midwesterners followed I-75 down to West Florida and the East Coasters took 95 down to South and Central Florida. This changed Florida forever. Or, more specifically, it made parts of Florida decidedly not the South.

Also known as “The cotton states,” the states we refer to as the “deep south” include South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Midwest region (Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin) Intermountain region (Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

Missouri typically is categorized as both a Midwestern and a southern state. The region was split on Union and Confederate issues during the Civil War. A small region of the state is called Little Dixie for the influx of southerners that settled there.

Poverty at a Glance Missouri’s poverty rate steadily increased from 13.3% in 2007 to 16.2% in 2012. Since 2012, the poverty rate has declined to 13.2% in 2018. 13.2% of Missourians live below the federal poverty line.

Acting on the ordinance passed by the Jackson government, the Confederate Congress admitted Missouri as the 12th confederate state on November 28, 1861.

Missouri was a border state and sent many men to the armies on both sides. Nearly 110,000 men fought for the Union, while about 40,000 served the Confederacy. They fought both in Missouri and in other states. Many battles and skirmishes were fought within Missouri itself.

The Confederacy included the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.

The eleven states that seceded from the Union and formed the main part of the CSA were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina….

Missouri State Guard Flag After seceding from the Union, many Confederate states adopted state flags. Missouri did not enact legislation to adopt an official Confederate state flag, but a state guard flag was adopted in Missouri by direction of Gen. Sterling Price in the spring of 1861.

The stars represent the seven seceded states of the U.S. Deep South. As many as eight more stars were later added to represent states admitted to or claimed by the Confederacy. The flag’s width-to-length ratio is about 2 to 3.

The Confederate States of America claims Missouri as a state, although Missouri officially remains a part of the Union. While the Confederacy consists of just 11 states, Confederate flags display 13 stars to reflect their claim to the border states of Missouri and Kentucky.

Though the Missouri Compromise managed to keep the peace—for the moment—it failed to resolve the pressing question of slavery and its place in the nation’s future. The controversial law effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing slavery in the region north of the 36º 30′ parallel.

Henry Clay then skillfully led the forces of compromise, engineering separate votes on the controversial measures. On March 3, 1820, the decisive votes in the House admitted Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and made free soil all western territories north of Missouri’s southern border.

Enacted in 1820 to maintain the balance of power in Congress, the Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

The only compromise that could have headed off war by then was for the Southern states to forgo secession and agree to abolition. The morality of the compromise was and remains legitimately open to question. But without it, there would likely have been no Union to defend in the Civil War.

Lincoln, among many others, advocated the gradual and compensated emancipation of slaves. This had been done in the British West Indies, and would later end slavery in Brazil and Cuba. Most historians believe that without the Civil War, slavery would have endured for decades, possibly generations.

The US Civil War was incontrovertibly the bloodiest, most devastating conflict in American history, and it remains unknown – and unknowable – exactly how many men died in Union and Confederate uniform. Now, it appears a long-held estimate of the war’s death toll could have undercounted the dead by as many as 130,000.

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