Which of the following statements regarding the dismay many people in the United States felt at the start of the Civil War is not correct?

a) Irish immigrants in the North feared competition from free black laborers.
b) Large numbers of people in the North did not support Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party, including Northern Democrats who blamed Lincoln for the war as much as the South.
c) Though a large majority of border state residents tended to favor secession and war, their states did not secede from the Union.
d) Whites in the southern uplands and yeomen farmers in the Deep South opposed secession and war.