Perhaps Americans are less worried about the long-term functioning of their state because the 19th and early 20th century saw protracted unemployment and econom

Perhaps Americans are less worried about the long-term functioning of their state because the 19th and early 20th century saw protracted unemployment and economic busts and a weak central government, but the republic never fell and soon great economic prosperity (at least for the white majority) returned. One could perhaps spectulate that had it not been for FDR and the social-cohesion consequences of total military mobilization in WWII, class warfare would have driven the US to breakdown in the 1930s and 1940s.