Well, my people on both my Mothers' and Fathers' side didn't arrive here untill about 1910, even my wifes' people didn't come here until about 1908. So our people were right in line with being persecuted for where they come from, including the Cherokee heritage I have from my great grandmother. The point? We got over it and blended into American culture. Yes, there are a few things we carry over, but we don't force it on others, and we worked for what we have, without rioting and looting.
If the south had successfully made a permanent break from the north I think we would be in the same situations that have come about, only without the strength that having all our country remaning combined has made. If not for the way we are told the world is reacting, (and I'm not certain the MSM reporting isn't fudged....alot), my guess would have been that the south would have had to deal with the slave rebellions, and not the entire nation dealing with the unrest we have today.
I believe the north would be a bit better off, but the south would have trouble keeping order.
Europe likes us to believe they have no signifigant issues of race origin, yet the MSM media here reports that the minority races over there are now crying they are descriminated against.
So long as the Democrat Party continues to use the minorites for poitical gain we have no hope of any true peace. The only up side, if you can consider it that, is should the Democrats become totally sucessful in the endeavor, the very pawns they are exploiting now will turn on them once the Dems claim victory and try to control the same races they turned loose on America without restriction or reservation. Arogance also has a price.