AHC: Southern secession from the USA, without the Mexican war/Mexican cession as a catalyzing issue?

Let me put it another way. If I were to try to explain the Dutch Indonesian period, based on what I know of the Pacific War, I would not be as conversant as a Dutch citizen who has access to the actual history at his fingertips.

Nor would I expect a non_American to know anything about the subtle interplay of former Mexican, now become Americans, and racist American southerners who came to Los Angeles to set up a new plantation system reminiscent of the horrors they created along Chesapeake Bay and the Virginia coasts, or the likes of John C. Fremont, Unionist, who was trying to tamp down rebellions in the political mess of that steaming goo. 1/3 of California was non-white, as in disenfranchised Brown. So that 20% of 60% left was actually more like HALF of the so-called "Americans". Gold Rush to 1864, California was very much a political powder keg waiting to go off.       

I will ask also what does this have to do with the discussion on the thread?  I was talking about the perception of the people in the old south which is nothing to do with the level of unrest that may or may not have been present in California.

Diary of Alfred Burton Welch 7-6 Thursday, 1899

1. Albert Welch just wrote a hateful bigoted comment about Native Americans and the Filipino People. To understand why it was extremely racist and bigoted, you must know a bit of American history about HOW the United States government treated the First Nations (And still does. M.).

The USG created "reservations" or as I prefer to call them, "concentration camps"..

This was usually the most worthless land the federal government could set aside. Upon that land, the First Nations were forcibly settled and held there by the army. Usually the treaty the USG forced upon the tribes, that accompanied this atrocity, guaranteed seeds, farm implements, a school, a hospital, and a "beef ration:" and "blankets" for the forced to live upon the reservation inhabitants.

Now the Indian Bureau sent out agents to be the "advocates" for the Native Americans, who were legally classified as "children" and therefore "wards" of the government. These "agents" were charged with "doling out" the treaty-guaranteed to the tribe: beef, blankets, seeds, farm tools and assorted odds and ends. Guess what the Indian "agents" did?

There was little recourse in the matter, if the Native Americans wanted to survive, except to "jump the reservation".. Another way of saying that was / is to head for the hills.

So what Welch derisively writes and means; is that Filipinos are "wards" of the United States government, "children" who will be on the dole after they are resettled, and who will jump the set aside reservations after the Americans steal all the good land. The Filipino citizens will head for the hills, or fatten themselves up over the winter on the American dole at the trading posts and reservation settlements, and then head into the valleys to stage a few massacres on the American "settlers" (Colonizers.) who settled therein. The American army will then chase the Filipinos around a bit and put them back into their reservations, where those "children" belong.

It is a CYNICAL, evil understanding of exactly what the Americans did in their drive to the Pacific.

GRRR.