Nate Cohn

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@JayCostTWS anyway, i was mainly thinking about your story about the 'west'--not the south. clearly, if the south retained power in perpetuity, it wouldn't have seceded. the senate certainly advanced that, if it's your goal--the electoral college, interestingly, most certainly did not — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

@JayCostTWS there's no doubt that the south's sense of 'demographic doom' contributed to its fears. but radicalization was a two way street. it's the 1860 election, not the new census figures or new states, that leads to secession — PolitiTweet.org