Depending on how things go in the next 10 years, I'm not so sure. Republicans at the national and local levels have done pretty much every single thing they can within the limits of the law to repress minorities, homosexuals, you name it. Obama's administraion is a thorn in their side and they know it, as do GOP/Tea Party voters. Get a GOPer President with a Congress that is hijacked by the far right half the time and things could really get out of hand. Look at what the GOP has been able to do politically and in terms of motivating their base while only controlling 1/3 of Washington. Just imagine what happens when they get the WH again. They get to act on it directly instead of being obstructionist and setting things up as the state level as some kind of odd precedent of sorts.
I've gotta say, recently, you can kind of sense more tension between races in public. Especially black and white. Over the past couple years it has become more apparent as Tea Party nation refuses to shut the fuck up and black folks got really upset after the Trayvon thing and other racially motivated crimes. As a white male it just depresses me.
