Missouri Secedes from the Union

According to the short lived Confederates States of America it actually happened. What really happened was that fearing the state's pro-slavery governor would initiate such a move, militiamen mostly from St. Louis, chased the governor and his supporters out of the state capital permanently. The governor gathered an ersatz legislature in a corner of the state, far away from St. Louis. That group voted to secede, however, by early 1862 two major battles effectively ended the idea of Missouri being part of the Confederacy.

One hundred fifty years later, ties between Missouri and the South will become closer again, for better or worse. Missouri secedes from the Big XII and joins the SEC ( cut for sports politics )