No ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states, an omen of the impending Civil War.
nˈoʊ bˈæləts wɜː kˈæst fɔːɹ hˌɪm ɪn tˈɛn ʌvðə fˈɪftiːn sˈʌðɚn slˈeɪv stˈeɪts, ænd hiː wˈʌn ˈoʊnli tˈuː ʌv nˈaɪnhˈʌndɹɪd nˈaɪnti sˈɪks kˈaʊntiz ɪn ˈɔːl ðə sˈʌðɚn stˈeɪts, ɐn ˈoʊmɛn ʌvðɪ ɪmpˈɛndɪŋ sˈɪvəl wˈɔːɹ.