re: Is this the most divided our nation has been in your lifetime?

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I was born in the 70s but don't remember them,

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Was born in January of 1959, so I remember back to the 60's. Vietnam, MLK assassination, gun carrying Black Panthers, Roe vs Wade, Watergate, Civil Rights Act of 1964,Voting Rights Act of 1965, 1966 Freedom of Information Act, Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, drugs, hippies, and more was causing division. It took more than just passing laws to get people to follow them.

Watergate and lying to U.S. citizens about Vietnam, while we watched daily casualty reports on TV, taught us to have a dis trust of our government at all levels. A lot of the social unrest today is driven by both sides of our legislative bodies. They want us worrying about who we have to pee next to in public rest rooms and what we can say at work, instead of them letting corporations run the country , while they stuff their pockets.

My dad, which back then pretty much meant, both of your parents, because women still followed Patsy Cline's advice and stood by their men, backed anything Nixon did. Trump supporters have nothing on Nixon supporter. They still support him. He's the MF that started our trade with China. My dad was a redneck version of Archie Bunker. Pretty much still is, except he doesn't cuss as much as he did then. Back then he had the balls to sit through Walter Cronkite telling about the lies and deception from Washington. Now he changes the channel when an anti-Trump segment comes on. Both he and my mom are mad at Fox News for their coverage of Trump since the most recent protests.

The Klan recruited my dad when he worked at the Natchez IP mill. They recruited everyone at the mill and at Armstrong Tire and Rubber. Natchez and Ferriday were hot spots for protests, killings, beatings, the Klan, and really dirty cops.

Anyone that stormed the U.S. Capital would have been beaten back or shot. The BLM's protesters that looted would have been beaten or shot.

As long as I can remember, my dad has called the foot long Maglite flashlights "Bud Spinks" flashlights. J.L. “Bud” Spinks was the Vidalia Police Chief back then. He was notorious for using it on Blacks that resisted arrests, or maybe just didn't know their place.

We moved to Mississippi before I started 4th grade. The schools weren't fully integrated. There were two black kids in my 4th and 5th grade classes. In 1969, the Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education Supreme Court ruling ordered the immediate desegregation of Mississippi schools. Sixth grade was at the old Black elementary school and junior high was at the old high school. Big changes for set-in-their-ways rednecks.

I don't think we've had near as many physical changes as back then. Having to worry about what your public political views are doesn't contend with having to change schools. I reserve my right to crawfish, if future legislation starts equaling that kind of stuff.