"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.
National identity and unity played a role as it provided common values that were necessary in unifying the empire. The group identity of the Romans was critical in unifying them from city states to an empire and also in pulling together other diverse societies to form an empire
Minnesota isn't considered part of the midwest because it is in the northern part of the US.