xenophobia?
what is xenophobia? and does it have anything to do with the civil war?
“fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything foreign or strange”
http://www.yourdictionary.com/xenophobia
Racism is a form of xenophobia, and racism would be a necessary prerequisite to the form of slavery practiced in the antebellum American South. Slavery was one major source of the tension between the South and the rest of the Union. The primary reason for the secessions which began the Civil War was a disagreement over States’ Rights: constitutionally, how autonomous are the individual states? The South feared that their autonomy would be weakened, slavery would be banned, and their economy and culture ruined due to laws passed by outsiders (more strangers) who didn’t understand them or care to (xenophobia from the other side). So yes, it did have something to do with the Civil War and with its aftermath. Still does.
