Angry Americans: A Canadian reporter goes inside a volatile nation

Grassroots revolt. Inflammatory media. Crazed militias. What's next?

MACLEAN'S magazine investigates in this week's cover story

TORONTO, April 9 /PRNewswire/ - Some say it is the biggest division between Republicans and Democrats since the Civil War. The Democratic party, newly emboldened by the passage of the health care bill, is facing opposition from a growing conservative grassroots revolt, one made up of antigovernment, anti-tax and anti-abortion agitators. By one estimate, the number of paramilitary groups in the U.S. had almost tripled in 2009 to 512.

The burgeoning Tea Party movement and media pundits such as Rush Limbaugh are pushing Republican politicians into moving even farther right. And in an increasingly divided nation, groups like the Guardians of the Free Republics-according to its website committed to the "behind-the-scenes peaceful" dismantling of the U.S. government-are springing up.

Maclean's magazine's senior writer Nicholas Kohler went to Alabama and Tennessee to report on the increasingly angry American discord.

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