PC: Second American Civil War

Not possible in a world with a Soviet Union.

Come again? We weren't particularly committed to opposing them until way after 1919. And even if we were, that was never the only political imperative we had, or even necessarily the most important one.
 
Only ways are even worse Great Depression but even then civil war is unlikely. Or then Southerners are extremely stupid and try new secession when they want keep Jim Crow Laws.
 

missouribob

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Alluding to what @Lalli said the last time period in the 20th century you could get a Civil War is a Civil Rights Movement that goes very very wrong. It wouldn't look like the First or a 1930s civil war though. Picture multiple ongoing insurgencies, the South under military occupation again, the inner cities under military occupation, extreme white flight to gated suburbs and a Federal Government that goes into bunker mode after multiple assassinations.
 
Alluding to what @Lalli said the last time period in the 20th century you could get a Civil War is a Civil Rights Movement that goes very very wrong. It wouldn't look like the First or a 1930s civil war though. Picture multiple ongoing insurgencies, the South under military occupation again, the inner cities under military occupation, extreme white flight to gated suburbs and a Federal Government that goes into bunker mode after multiple assassinations.
Agreed. If the nonviolent voices of MLK and Thurgood Marshall are silenced early on (lets say the late fifties or, max, early sixties) and a more traditional Democrat is elected in 1960 other than Kennedy, then I think Black Panther-type voices would be more common and mainstreamed. This would give the Bull Connor wing a justification to crack down further with the support of the American people against the violence. I could see a spiraling out of control if everything fell into place exactly right - or wrong, in this case
 
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