The majority of enlistees in the Confederate Army were young men from poor rural areas who neither owned slaves nor had a vested interest in seeing that slavery was perpetuated. A key motivating factor for these individuals to join the Southern cause was grounded in fears of a Northern invasion of their homeland. Confederate recruitment posters from 1861 contained dire warnings of Yankee confiscation of property and the violation of Southern families. Anxiety was especially acute in border states such as Virginia and Tennessee.