What you say is generally true, but what I was commenting on was what the soldiers themselves wrote in their diaries, journals and postwar accounts. Those who lived in the western and northern counties tended to be more "westward looking" in their economic interests; less invested or interested in a slave-based economy; more concerned with the depredations of Indians than with abolitionists and concerns of slave uprisings; more interested in livestock than in King Cotton. There was also a sizeable Hispanic population with cultural ties to Mexico and the southwestern territories. So Texas was, in my opinion, in a unique league of its own, in comparison to the other Southern states.