"Everybody about here is for Secession." Many unionists, thinking secession inevitable, stayed home as North Carolinian's approved a convention in mid-May. When the delegates met in Raleigh on May 20, they voted unanimously to secede from the United States and to join the Confederate States of America.
The result was that North Carolina left the union after the vote on, may 20th 1861 to join the struggle for the southern independence
Explanation:
North Carolina left the union to join other deep southern states like Alabama,Florida,south Carolina,Texas. to fight/struggle for the independence of the south and this ended up ruining North-Carolina because the fight ended up in a defeat overall
