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    Are we headed for a second civil war?

    by By Jesse Walker, Los Angeles Times Aug 22, 2017 3 minutes

    A cliche is haunting America _ the cliche of a second civil war.

    "America is currently fighting its second civil war," conservative columnist Dennis Prager declared in January. "Is a Second Civil War in the Making?" the left-wing website Alternet asked a few months later. In March, Foreign Policy polled various national security figures on the likelihood of a new civil war; the panel put the chances at about 30 percent. Now the New Yorker has posed the same question to several Civil War historians, who replied with ominous

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