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Hugabear

(10,340 posts)

11. The whole 'states rights' thing is vastly overstated

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sun Jul 7, 2013, 12:02 PM

Jul 2013

In fact, we fought a bloody war over that issue.

States rights basically allow states to govern themselves as long as they don't conflict with federal laws, or violate civil rights. This is what the right wingers have an issue with. Almost ALL of their 'states rights' issues have been dealing with violating civil rights: slavery, segregation, gay marriage, promoting religion, etc.