Why did many Georgian plantation owners favor secession?

Many Georgian plantation owners favored secession primarily due to their economic reliance on slavery for cultivating cash crops like cotton. They feared that the federal government's growing opposition to slavery threatened their economic interests and way of life. Additionally, they believed that secession would allow them to preserve their social order and maintain their political power in the face of increasing abolitionist sentiment in the North. This desire for autonomy and control contributed significantly to their support for the Confederacy.