Vampires
To the vast majority of American humans? Yes, The way they were treated you'd think so, and that's just silly. You obviously weren't around the midwest very much.
It's not to separate us, it's to make us more understandable. Like your vlog, it would show that we're just another group of global society, but we are not human, and some humans, especially the Moral Right group of them, would like to pin that stigma of all of us being nothing but blood sucking evil creatures with a lust for death.
It's not so much an Us versus Them as it is a way to make Us more understandable to Them.