Die überwiegende Mehrheit der Bürger des Landes lebten innerhalb eines 50-Kilometer-Radius um ihren Geburtsort herum. Wenn überhaupt, gehörte ihre politische Loyalität nicht der Union, sondern ihrem Bundesstaat.
The vast majority of the country’s citizens had lived their lives within a 30-mile radius of where they were born; their political attachments, if they had any, were to their state – not to the union.