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LA Times Today: Patt Says: Confederate sentiment in Southern California ran deeper than you might know

LA Times Today: Patt Says: Confederate sentiment in Southern California ran deeper than you might know

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California was admitted to the Union in September 1850 as a free, non-slavery state, and it remained in the Union during the Civil War.

But, as L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison writes, pro-Confederacy sentiment was more prevalent than you’d think in the years before and after the war.

Here’s what Patt says.

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