But the great mass of the adult white male population of New Orleans (nine-tenths, indeed, of the white male population of Louisiana) were in sympathy, or, by active efforts, supporters of the rebellion.
Reid notes that a significant majority of the white male population in New Orleans supported the rebellion during the Civil War.
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