The truth of the matter is that the War Between the States has never ended.
I am southern, grew up in the North and had to hide my accent, attempting to perfect it in the TV News anchor styles. For the most part, I did okay as long as I was careful but every now & then, I slipped. And then.....
Then I moved to the South, now I was a “Yankee”. In Houston, there is a war between the Blacks and the Hispanics, and then between both of those cultures and the Whites. When I was a teacher, I stood between these races to distract them from each other or arguments would happen.
How any of the other cultures made it through - Viet Namese, Sudanese, Caribbean, etc. escaped me. I didn’t understand racism then. I don’t understand it now.
All I know is that there are “no go” places in this country based on the color of one’s skin and accent. The War Between the States and all the things it represented and brought with it: bigotry, hatred, division, ignorance, racism, self-righteousness - pick one - never ended; it’s like the bamboo pole stuck in the ground. You pull it to one side & it bounces back to the other and then back again from where it came & keeps on going.
How does a society ever stop that swing?
For one thing, this country imports racists and Nazis, under the cover of muslims and hispanic illegals. We think that because they are brown they must not be racist Nazis, which is not true at all. Entire KkK chapters are made of Mexicans.
Control the border to keep the nut cases out and poof! the racism problem in America will greatly diminish. Busing was also designed to provoke. Welfare also is a form of National Socialism, providing race based entitlements.
Sorry, but you totally misunderstand.
There is no "war between the states", never really was.
There is now and always was a war of Democrats against the United States.
Only their specific issues & tactics have changed, but Democrats have always been the people who hated the United States and want to see it "transformed" under their rule, or destroyed if not -- rule or ruin.
ZephyrTX: "In Houston, there is a war between the Blacks and the Hispanics, and then between both of those cultures and the Whites.
When I was a teacher, I stood between these races to distract them from each other or arguments would happen."
So you've stood on the front lines of culture wars -- thanks so much for your service, no need for you to be ashamed of anything Northern or Southern, because it's not about that.
It's about who loves their country & wants to preserve it and who hates us and wants to see us destroyed.
ZephyrTX: "How any of the other cultures made it through - Viet Namese, Sudanese, Caribbean, etc. escaped me.
I didn’t understand racism then.
I don’t understand it now."
It's pretty simple, really: people who love us and work hard to make it here usually do better than those who hate us and want to see us destroyed.
Imagine that!
My experience was similar to yours - but the mirror opposite. I was born in the PNW but moved south at an early age. So I got to be “Dayum Yankee” growing up.
Then my family moved back to Washington where I now became “Johnny Reb”. Beyond the minor irritation - and a few fistfights - I never minded. I wouldn’t have traded my childhood for anything.
I was taught to be color-blind - within reasonable limits - and it served me well until the likes of Al Sharpton and Barry Soeterro came along.
No, it never did because the war was used to justify the money streams going into the connected people in New York, Washington DC and the north east in general.
The war against southern independence had to be continued through every means of propaganda to keep people off balance in understanding what was really going on.
The Northeastern power brokers had jiggered the laws to create artificial demands for their goods and services, and the prospect of Southern states independence was a dire threat to their money streams which were created by federal laws. (Because they had control of the congress.)
Southern states getting out from under these laws gravely threatened their rice bowl, and they would rather see the nation rent asunder and millions dead than giving up their access to power and money.
The same was still true after the war, and this coalition of power brokers in the north east have spent the last 150 years pushing the propaganda that the war was necessary and that southern intransigence continues to justify all the methods they use for oppressing the Southern peoples.
It's about money. It was about money in 1861, and it's been about money ever since.
How does a society ever stop that swing?
You take away all the profit from promoting race based grabs for power, and indeed, you make it very very costly for people who try this angle, and they will stop doing it immediately.