"This is not a sectional issue. Difficulties over segregation and discrimination exist in every city, in every State of the Union, producing in many cities a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety. Nor is this a partisan issue. In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics."

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In this excerpt from President Kennedy's 1963 Civil Rights Address the phrase "rising tide of discontent" most likely refers to: 
a sectional issue 
difficulties over segregation and discrimination 
every State of the Union 
a time