what was the logic behind the southern states leaving the union?

Question

the question says it all

Answer 1

The elite families in the coastal cities of New England wanted to dictate to the elite families of the rural South how they should live their lives. The northern snobs felt that slavery should be abolished, and the southern snobs wondered how the north expected them to run their plantations without cheap labor, especially since the northern snobs were using the very same cheap labor as indentured servants, treating them just as poorly as their claimed the southern snobs did.

Meanwhile, a lot of southern snobs were actually treating their slaves pretty well. It wasn't all whips and chains and horror stories. There were a lot of slaves who were treated so well by their masters that they faught right alongside them during the war.

So it became a matter of a majority vote in the northern cities, millions of people convinced by the northern elite snobs, vs. a much smaller population vote in the southern towns. And when the northerners insisted the southerners just do what the majority wanted, that's when they left them no other choice but to go to war.

It's also why the electoral college is so critically important. There are people who forget the principals of majority rule vs. the way a Republic works, and how majority votes can make a small regional population segment have power over the rest of the country just because there are so many of them concentrated in one area.

Eventually, the larger geographic area gets fed up being dictated to by a bunch of CITIOTS, and the result is war.

Answer 2

The southern states did not feel that they were being treated properly. They believed that they had the right to determine whether or not they should allow slavery and that the federal government did. Over the years prior to the Civil War, there was a lot of wrangling and negotiating over slavery. However, the southern states felt that they were not being truly represented in the federal government. So, they decided that they would secede and form their own government and make their own laws.

Answer 3

They didn't agree with the northern states so they wanted their own government. The election of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation was the last straw.

Answer 4

Originally it was because they were being taxed, not represented fairly,etc., etc. (Sound familiar? The same reasons that United States broke away from England.)