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“States' rights should decide everything!”
What You Say
States' rights historically defended slavery and Jim Crow. Federal civil rights exist because local majorities abused local minorities. Federalism is a structure, not a moral blank check.
The Stab
States' rights was the slogan; slavery was the product.
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