In the election of 1860, they would've voted for <span>Breckinridge, who was a southern democrat.</span>
The Mississippi Delta area is not heavily forest now because it was cleared for agriculture (cotton).
Reconstruction is largely seen as a failure, and many historians believe this was primarily because the South for so long had been dependent on slaves that in one swift motion the South's entire livelihood shifted. This dramatic shift was too much for the Southerners to absorb at once, and harsh Jim Crow laws sprang up.
