User blog comment:High Prince Imrahil/The Confederate Flag/@comment-26258526-20160706155214/@comment-26258526-20160706162941

Those elites didn't force anything, each county elected a official they trusted to repent them in the state vote for seccession for unity, no forced seccession. Also very rarely was a regiment in the CSA army not volonteer, once again seccession was very popular. And yes those elites did use slaves to keep their pocket lined, as did the English who where the main consumer of southern cotton during the war.