I doubt the ability for the US to amass a common mentality and camaraderie needed to bring about a civil war, as was available in the days of the Civil War. With the computer age and individualism, society is just too different from person to person to start a revolutionary change in way of a national divide. Change can still happen, but not by methods that would separate the country. Unless other factors get involved, like a physical destruction of our government to the point of mass panic and disorganization.
It's easy for people on the outside to look at a situation and think civil unrest, but I don't think many people fully understand just how united the US is in our differences. We can be extreme in our differences and have no problem voicing those extremes if we need to, but while this would divide some societies, it is actually what shapes who we are and holds us together in many ways. No matter how many people think one way, you can find many people who think another way, and yet more still who think another or in between. And as long as we live in this country, our voice is a part of the whole. As long as several people think similar, which is usually the case, then there is the ability to modify the whole in some degree, and even effect how others think somewhere down the line. I also think that most of us understand that while we think one way, others who live here think differently, and beyond voicing what we believe, there is a point that we must accept that fact. Plus, when the Civil War took place, there were MANY more factors instigating it than there are now.
