Outrageous proposal in some southern states

I wrote some time ago about this country not able to move from its racial issues that so haunted its minorities and set this country back at the time.
But we are no any longer in the 50s and early 60s, this is 2010, and we have some state legislatures in the south who are trying to propose presidential candidates to prove their citizenship, and even though it does not say that they want proof that Mr. Obama is a native of the U.S., the language of that proposal is only short of mentioning the president’s name.
These are the same people who were against the civil rights legislation, and who cannot live with the idea that an African American is the head of the Executive Branch of government, a.k.a. president, that he is the commander in chief of the military, and that he is a democrat.
State Legislator Berman from Texas, the proposer of this requirement, first said that he wanted proof of the President’s place of birth, and then admitted that the reason he wants this is because of what he calls "the radical proposals" of our president.
It is amazing that almost 100 years after the end of the civil war in the United States, the defeated states have still not accepted the fact that they were defeated, and that this is a union.
I wonder what President Abraham Lincoln would say about these developments after all this time.