The participle in this sentence is D. Singing. Participles are formed by turning a verb into an adjective to modify another word. Therefore, singing here is a verb and is also modifying the word group.
Assuming that you're referring to the conflict of cultural disdain between the south and the north,
The author think that the south has race and religious preference, ( white Christian native Americans)
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The answer is a : depressing
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