re: Its time for Missouri to move on from the SEC.

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You joined the Confederacy in February. We didn't join until June. You had 2 governments. We tried to secede multiple times from the Confederacy. You had a ton of skirmishes between pro-Union and pro-Confederate forces. We had the biggest Civil Uprising against the Confederacy of the entire war and Lincoln considered East, Tennessee the freest place in the entire Union to speak about the abolition of slavery. You're not Deep South but neither is Tennessee or Kentucky. You're not Upper South in geography but in terms of culture you're close enough.

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What the hell? You are just full of fake news. Tennessee never tried to secede from the Confederacy. It couldn’t have because the damn Yankees overran our state early in the war. We spent the remainder of the war trying to get it back. That’s why we are the home of the second most battles among the States. And the vast majority of Tennesseans fought for the South. East Tennessee was divided because of the mountain isolation and new comers to the State. But over 80% of Tennesseans proudly fought for the South. And every Southern State except South Carolina produced some Union soldiers.