Interesting observations but I disagree about today's right being analogous to pre Civil War southerners. I do agree that those poor souls were sacrificed by rich plantation owners who wanted to retain a low cost labor pool and offload the external costs on others. We're still paying those costs today, so thanks a lot guys.
If anything, today's new right is fighting a similar battle but on the opposite side. Globalists and the establishment pols they own are fighting for open borders, massive amnesties, etc to keep the flow of cheap labor and an expanding pool of big immigrant families, mostly on welfare, to keep buying Chinese crap from Walmart, etc. The so-called alt-right is fighting to maintain a country we can still recognize, which of course conflicts with both the globalists' economic plans and the dems' electoral strategy.
The next time you read a serious discussion of immigration in the MSM will be the first. Both sides, and the big money behind them, want more and more immigrants, the poorer and more uneducated the better. Anyone who disagrees is not a patriot concerned about their country turning into Londonistan but a hate-filled white supremacist Nazi.
Everyday Trump is up to his eyeballs defending “good people on both sides” calling black people low intelligent and attacking pro athletes that black.
Trump is embodiment of the scared white man who is afraid of black men but want to get in their face and they resent their fear.
Our reckless gun laws and our discriminating justice system is all because of the the insecurities of weaklings like Steven Miller. It’s all based on resentment.