CONCEALMENT AND CONFUSION
Harvey Estes

Each of the eleven sentences below conceals a name. The eleven names constitute a unique group. The letters of the hidden names are in consecutive order, but in some cases the letters are scrambled and must be anagrammed into the correct name. What are the names and what is the group?

1. At the media lab, a marginal effort will not suffice.

2. No rest for one such as I, a soul in a whirlwind of chaos.

3. My uptight ex assumes the worst about me.

4. The hamper was as rank as the sweaty clothes inside it.

5. Wear a hat or unsocial people will mock your toupee.

6. In vain I rig the election to try to help my cronies.

7. Thy had forgotten Ness, eerily hidden among the lochs.

8. Our prime minister will try again if a lord supports him.

9. Shirts bigger than large or giant-size are expensive.

10. A servant you meant to dismiss is sipping the table wine.

11. After the concert, he ran into choral directors who came to steal his ideas.

Answers:

1. mediA LAB A MArginal
2. as I A SOUL IN A whirlwind  (LOUISIANA)
3. uptighT EX ASsumes
4. wAS AS RANK  (ARKANSAS)
5. a HAT OR UNSOCIAL  (SOUTH CAROLINA)
6. in VAIN I RIG the  (VIRGINIA)
7. forgotTEN NESS, EErily
8. again IF A LORD supports  (FLORIDA)
9. larGE OR GIAnt 
10. disMISS IS SIPPIng
11. he RAN INTO CHORAL  (NORTH CAROLINA)

These states seceded from the Union and  made up the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.