Thank you for your reasoned reply, but I have to disagree. For starters, you made the all too common mistake of citing slavery as the cause of the war.
As usual, the war was about power and money - the same as the motivation for most all modern wars. Slavery was a minor issue compared to power and money.
I understand why you would think that civil war was the primary cause of the war, as that is the myth that U.S. public schools students are indoctrinated to believe, but if you do ANY independent research (ignoring the liberal-approved textbooks) - you'll discover that this just isn't true. (Remember, official historical textbooks are written by the victors in a war.) It doesn't take much effort to find the truth, but the causes of the "War of the Rebellion" (the official Yankee name of the war) are worth researching. Because when you do, you uncover the basis of where everything went wrong in U.S. government, and why we find ourselves in this mess today.
As for as the likelihood of somehow the southern Confederate states reverting back into either slavery (impossible) or even some sort of separatist/apartheid mess, do you really, REALLY believe that can happen today? Sure, there are still plenty of bigots around (of all colours, and not just in the South). But something like that would NEVER be allowed to happen. There are far too many militant civil rights activists and organizations nowadays that would raise 100 different kinds of hell if Whitey every tried anything like that.
Besides, in case you haven't noticed, the white folks are the #1 most cowed and complacent herd of sheep that exist in the world today. A few hardcore bigots and "yahoos" (as you say) aren't gonna motivate the rest of the herd to do anything that extreme.
The fact is, that the U.S. Empire is destined to collapse. All empires fail eventually. And all the signs are pointing to an imminent collapse within this generation. We might as well start planning for it now. Many scholars have predicted that the U.S. will eventually break up into several regions, and it is likely that the southern states will band together again, even though Southerners have been largely "Yankeeized" nowadays anyway. It won't be a return to the romantic "Gone with the Wind" version of the old South that some hope for - far from it. But it will happen, eventually. And everyone will be better off when it does.
