Here's a huge shout to Rick Petree for laying out some actual history behind flawed assumptions. To be sure, multiple routes to shenanigans exist, and history can be ignored... but here's a great short thread. @DirkSchwenk @lauferlaw @LouiseMensch https://twitter.com/RickPetree/status/1345443786042859522

I should also note, with particular delight, the State of Missouri. During the Civil War it was a Union state, but as the Missouri Compromise, a slave state. The legendary Jesse James is a direct outcome of that circumstance. He and his band of irregulars...

hassled the Union army. (Minnesotans have fond memories of a visit by the James / Younger gang as well.) After the war he remained an outlaw (freebooter) but caught the ear of a sympathetic newspaper editor. Sympathetic ears were not hard to find!

Jesse James basically blogged-out his philosophy/manifesto through that newspaper, and that, to a large extent, is why he's so famous.

The necessary condition was Missouri's resentment at being a Union state.

Residents of Missouri snuck across the river to join the Confederate armies. Not until early 1900s did many regain the right to vote.