should have been a quick war thus turned into a 4 year long ordeal that killed 750,000 Americans, largely fought in Jackson’s state of Tennessee and heavily Scots-Irish Virginia.

Moreover, the class ideology of Jacksonism tended to be averse to slavery. Calhounism favored a slave-owning oligarchy that had little need for a flourishing class of white yeomen, except to fight for the oligarchs. The Western-oriented populist Jeffersonian-Jacksonian mindset was largely about small farmers and remained an important force outside of cotton country.

Cotton plantations worked by slaves were so profitable in the deep South that the six Cotton Belt states followed South Carolina, but further north, the Jefferson/Jackson social matrix was stronger. For example, the furthest north Confederate state, Virginia, suffered secession by its hillbilly northwest into the Union stateTinCaps blow lead, drop series

(May 16, 2013) – Despite a 6-0 lead after the first three innings of Thursday night’s game, the Fort Wayne TinCaps could not hang on and lost, 7-6, to the Bowling Green Hot Rods. The loss gave a series victory to the Hot Rods, and gives the Eastern Division’s first-place team a 4-2 lead in the season series.

Fort Wayne (23-15) scored twice in the first inning, picking up RBI singles from Gabriel Quintana and Jeremy Baltz. Another run scored in the third on a single by Stephen Carmon, and three more came home on base hits from Luis Tejada and Rodney Daal in the third inning. By the time three frames had elapsed, the TinCaps had scored six runs against the Midwest League’s ERA