RE: This is verging on a civil war in some of the southern states.
The Civil War 1861-1865 never ended in some of the Southern states. I would recommend Douglas R. Egerton's book "The Wars Of Reconstruction" New York, Bloomsbury Press 2014 and Douglas A. Blackmon's "Slavery By Another Name" New York, Doubleday, 2008 to anyone who would like more perspective on this.