Reply #8: States Rights, as a term

[RainDog]

in my mind has for so long been co-opted by my association of the issue with segregationists and racists and the issue of traffic in human slavery...

which is a perversion of the issue, isn't it, because those "rights" were based upon disenfranchisement in the first place.

it's sad that now, when the heirs of those original states rights arguments find themselves in control of the Federal govt, they have simply switched their "rights" preference to reflect the same perversion of the issue when they were on the "state" side of the issue...

which is an abridgement of freedoms for other Americans based upon their own bias.