So I’m reading Robert Kennedy and his Times by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and in one chapter Schlesinger talks about how when Kennedy’s friend Byron White sent William Orrick down to the South, Orrick joked that he felt like he was in Russia because there was not an American flag in sight. Only Confederate flags. And this made me wonder. Was it ever possible for racial tensions in the South so bad that a full-out civil war or race war erupts in the former Confederacy in the 1960’s? Maybe several governors defy government orders and, feeling that the government no longer holds their interests, perhaps they secede and try to form a Second Confederacy. How would this war affect American culture, history, and the overall Cold War? I know it may be a little far-fetched, but I feel like it would be an interesting, and disturbing concept.