The key social conundrum in America’s first antebellum period was triggered by the Dred Scott Decision; were runaway slaves in free Union states freemen or merely misplaced property? That crystallized the antagonism between Free States and Slave States and led to Civil War. The key  conundrum  in current antebellum American society is: Whether illegal aliens are merely undocumented immigrants or claim jumpers, usurpadors? That crystallizes the profound antagonism between the residents of 2016 America who believe themselves to be Global Citizens ( 43%) and those in America who define themselves as American Citizens( 57%) Defining Claim Jumper- “ a  supplanter, usurper - one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another.” The Global Citizens in America believe in Open Borders, that nationhood does not matter, or that nationhood is racist. Global Citizens believe that anyone, from anywhere in the world, have a right to come to America illega...