Anyone who hasn't lived under a rock at all know the South lost the war in 1865, and have been playing the victim card ever since, calling it The War of Northern Aggression, or some such nonsense. During reconstruction, all the way into the 1960's, African Americans who dared to stand up to blatant discrimination were, for that century, subject to murder, disrespect, blatant hostility, open hatred, discriminatory services, unfair treatment by law enforcement...anything to keep them dependent, scared, and most importantly, silent.
Today, African Americans everywhere still receive discriminatory justice, economic injustice, and blatant hostility from everywhere. This gut reaction by most racists harkens back to a time that they feel was taken away from them. This has been fed to them by blatantly corrupt politicians, saying whatever the crowd wants to hear to win office and never following through on promises.
My theory in all this is that with each attack on minorities and Conservative victory, the objective is simple: How do we return to a plantation lifestyle, where I had slaves that did all the work while I do mostly nothing and get rich from their works?
It isn't hard to see most of the irony. Poor states in the South where most of the Racial angst is found are actually net receivers of funds from a federal government they pretend to despise. The number of people who argue that social benefits need to be cut that rely on those same benefits in order to live is astounding. The wealthy elite who would actually be the future plantation owners, have managed to convince an mass of ignorant and uneducated voting base, through the tool of racism, a hatred for social programs that they perceive are used mostly by racial minorities. Though this would throw a lot of poor whites under the proverbial bus as well, the idea by a wealthy few is to return to a land of insanely cheap to free labor, a life of plenty and leisure for a few. It's like even though they also signed the declaration of independence and the Constitution, they were never quite comfortable with giving up this sense of nobility they would otherwise likely still have in a monarchy.
Their called Robber BARONS for a reason, nyet?