@Ducimus I think personally some people say a lot of racist talk but then they will also have a friend or co-worker that is the race they seem to dislike and they always have the "they are an exception" mentality.
One thing that has always bugged me is how people think that people down south are all prejudice.Man that really ticks me off.True we might have a history down here but other parts of the country where/are just as bad if not worse but that fact always gets swept under the rug.
@Red October I am not sure what makes you feel that even opening your mouth in the presence of a certain group of people automatically makes you racist.Don't complain about PC and then use the most PC term there is to to describe a certain race.
I use the term "black" because I have had many black friends and peers and that is the term that 95% of them use to describe themselves.At the same time I typically do not use a racial or ethnic term to describe someone unless it has some relevance to the topic at hand.
For example if I buy a car from a car salesman his race has no particular relevance if I where to describe to someone the event of buying the car.
I personally feel that focusing heavily on race/ethnicity when it has no true relevance plays heavily into the hands of both the PC nuts and the racists.
As to the whole civil war thing I think honestly that it is pretty unlikely.Sooner or later (hopefully sooner) enough Americans of all stripes will grow tired of governmental ineptness and vote accordingly and something will be done about our broken system and Congress members will no longer be able to draw their own district boundaries and they will change how elections will be funded so on so fourth.Like I have said before apathy is the worst human trait right now there are too many apathetic citizens.