That combined with the fact that the US in many ways is a confederation jury rigged into a federation doesn’t help. Even if we killed every white person in the South after the civil war I suspect we would still be dealing with the same basil issues just with a different coat of paint. Most of the issues are caused by regional issues, proto-nationalism, and a failing Imperial identity.

Pretty sure it is common sense, the problem is that like any civil rights issue we end up having to fight tooth and nail to keep folks from being fucked over. The area I come from is rather conservative but if you talk to anyone who isn’t an avid consumer of propaganda their general response to anything out of the norm socially is “Not my problem”, the problem isn’t the majority of folks it’s a population of about 30-40 percent of busy bodies who are obsessed with what folks do in and with their pants.