AHC: 2nd ACW in the 1970s to the 1980s?

This was just a random idea I had, and I was wondering how it could come about. I know it's very much ASB, but I was thinking maybe it come spring from an escalated Vietnam War and a denied civil rights movement rising up. Thoughts on how it could happen?
 
If you take ACW to literally mean 'American Civil War' as in 'a civil war in the US' instead of just 'the South secedes again'... there was a long-lasting meme post '68 that the US was on the brink of an inter-race war between the black ghettos and the white suburbs.... Of course this never happened but word is still out on how plausible a national uprising of civil war prpoprtions would have been. Some say, it was mostly sensationalism and fearmongering. Others say it could have happened if the right factors came together. Others say that we just got lucky. Regarddless, it did make for some interesting graphic novel plotlines back when I was growing up.
 
If you take ACW to literally mean 'American Civil War' as in 'a civil war in the US' instead of just 'the South secedes again'... there was a long-lasting meme post '68 that the US was on the brink of an inter-race war between the black ghettos and the white suburbs.... Of course this never happened but word is still out on how plausible a national uprising of civil war prpoprtions would have been. Some say, it was mostly sensationalism and fearmongering. Others say it could have happened if the right factors came together. Others say that we just got lucky. Regarddless, it did make for some interesting graphic novel plotlines back when I was growing up.

Yeah, I guess that's about right. What about earlier, in the 1950s? How could that have happened?
 
Well post-WW2 you have the "Red Scare" first and foremost on every ones minds. A large external threat like that tends to quiet potential violent insurrections that lead to civil war. Not to say there weren't a fair share of violent extremists/terrorists or a large amount of (largely peaceful) public dissent and dissatisfaction with the US government (eg. Civil Rights movement, Hippy movement, Women's Rights movement) just that there was unlikely to ever be the kind of systematized armed revolt against the federal authority of the United States that was sustained and and actively supported by a large portion of the American population that would have constituted a real civil war (ie. be able to directly challenge the governments authority and control over the land and its people).
 
I agree, the 1950's with its single-mindedness on military buildup and McCarthey redbaiting would have become a military dictatorship at the first signs of secession and wold have squashed every civil unrest before it would become a civil war.
 
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