I'm a bit confused.

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4. I think there's some interest out there in "states rights" motivated by the desire to oppress LGBTQ

Civil Rights and Women's choice to reproductive health services and birth control.

You may recall that there are some people who want to end the Department of Education, so control of school curriculum is a big issue too.

I guess most of them want just enough federal government to go to war anywhere around the world whenever wherever they want.

The stockpiling may be associated with their expectation that we're going to have Great Depression II, so people are going to come after their goods and attack their families in order to acquire the wherewithall to trade for food and medicine.

They aren't necessarily Republican, though they might wear that label, or any other. The Republican party has split into 2 parties: the 1% who own the 53% that Romney thinks he campaigned for and represented by Boehner and Cantor; and those of the 47% who think of themselves as Republicans, but whom Romney and Ryan campaigned against.

Labels can be tricky under the best of circumstance, in regards to what used to be called Republicans lately, labels are particularly suspect. I find it more useful to think in terms of issues, single, and in combinations of issue relationships.