re: Missouri improves the SEC because it isnt "Southern"

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quote: Most Missourians sided with tbe South during the war between the States.

Seems like I've read the opposite of this. Missouri sent around 40,000 men to fight for the South, but 100,000 to fight for the North. Not saying you're wrong, just that I remember it differently.

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Missouri was flooded with German immigrants in the 1830's to a region just east of St. Louis. This area was specifically settled to mirror the Rhineland region of Germany....many of these Germans were considered to be the "enlightened" class. This German region bordered the south eastern edge of the Little Dixie region of Missouri. Little Dixie ran from Kansas City east straddling the Missouri River across the state all the way to Mississippi just north of St Louis. When the Civil War broke out the Union sent additional German immigrants into Missouri to push the southern sympathizers/Confederates out of the state, it was strictly a numbers game and the critical number was too many damn Germans. After the war the Germans displaced some of the original homesteaders (hemp plantations) increasing the Rhineland region farther west along the Missouri River.