It must be noted that when Andrew Jackson did not appease them it almost triggered a civil war and when Abe Lincoln's mere election triggered mass hysteria in the South it did trigger a Civil War that was won single-handedly by one general. This has too much unfortunate truth to it, and the Southerners like myself and like George H. Thomas and MLK and all the others who do not fit in this tend to be squashed by the reactionaries.

This goes back to what I've said before that the South is an evolving democracy within an established democracy, and any attempt to address the culture clash must accept that the South's issues are far deeper even than noted here. At a fundamental core the South has yet to fundamentally accept the democratic ideas of the 1880s, let alone the 20th Century or particularly the 21st. The deeper problem is that this has co-existed with the established democracy of the North. So the South is incapable by now of realizing it's never been democratic yet, and associates dictatorship with democracy.

Unless some way is found out of that, this same sad sack of shit bunch of reactionary asshats will keep popping up regardless.