[vorpalhex]

You're bringing up politicians that have nothing to do with the problem. You are fighting the culture war and somehow ended up in civil war land.

The US has never been homogenous. There's a reason we are a collection of states with a federalized government. "E Pluribus Unum."

This magical nostalgia past you're talking about has never existed. Trade whatever you're currently reading in for a few history books.