Just me or is "State's Rights" just code words for...

[HardWorkingDem]

Maintain the status quo because we know the majority of states aren't going to allow wide ranging equal rights, gay marriage, medicinal marijuana, or substantive civil rights legislation, et cetera.

In other words, your shit doesn't have much of chance to pass, but we'll pay it lip service to make you all feel better and to get rid of this hot potato.

[AX10]

1. "State's Rights" was once a code word for "Segregation"

[Basileus Basileon]

2. It's what the Republicans pull out every time

it looks like there's a nationwide consensus to bring out some sort of positive social change. It amounts to, "fine, you can enter the 21st century, but you can't drag me out of the nineteenth!"

[Traveling_Home]

3. In Colorado

our "State's Rights" got us a Colorado Medical marijuana Program.
Good

The Feds ignore it.
Bad

[mrreowwr_kittty]

6. Which shows exactly what a bunch of hogswallop that "States Rights" rhetoric is.

It's states rights until the state wants to do something Dear Leader doesn't want them to do.

[sam sarrha]

4. or siphoning off federal social program moneys to make the richest of the stinking rich richer

[RethugAssKicker]

5. Its not just you.... It is well know that it is a code word

for keeping the status-quo....or as it really meant to keep
segregation in place!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

7. States Rights is a broad code word for defending things forbidden by the 14th amendment

Before the civil war the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal government. After the civil war, the 14th amendment was interpreted to mean that the states could not deprive anyone of those constitutional rights... those rights were "incorporated."

The phrase "states rights" has usually been used to claim a state ability to withhold those Federal rights within the state.

Preventing black people from voting is the classic state right. Before the civil war, states had that right. Afterward, they lost that right... but some have continued to fight it for 150 years.