Sorry to say, but even in Australia the combination of SC, AR, TN leaves me worrying. There's a lot of dark history associated with those states that the world has known about for years. That's without taking the "R" into account.
Sometimes I think the USA should have it's own history A/B compared against it's own history as recorded by the rest of the world.
Not saying it's Tiananmen level yet, but it seems some people haven't read their own history.
Disclaimer: I live in NSW, Australia. Some evil stuff happened here that is rarely acknowledged.
The northeast states are built on a legacy of making life hard for anyone who didn't hail from the right country or worship in just the right way. The west coast treated Asians like crap. The plains states had to kick the natives out and that wasn't pretty.
It's harder to fit that crap into something short and sweet enough for history textbooks so you don't hear about it whereas simple skin tone based discrimination in the south is easy to make a bullet point out of so everyone knows about it.
There's plenty of D's who just love to come up with bills that make citizens more vulnerable to the government.