However, in and of itself, secession was a major overreaction to this political setback. The proximate cause of the South's secession was the election of Abraham Lincoln with a Republican majority in 1860. Because of that the people responsible for it presented the issue later as a question of whether the Union should have intervened and fought the Civil War - avoiding the question of whether secession was wise in the first place. It is the contention here that secession was an utter disaster for the South.
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