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“States Rights” in the context of the Civil War were about the issue of slavery, period. It was about the slave owners’ “rights” to own slaves AND to extend that right into the new territories like Kansas & Missouri involving the Maine compromise, etc.
It’s always revolved around that dirty little issue, slavery. When slavery ended it was about Jim Crow & when Jim was finally laid to rest it was about using the polarized white anger about the Civil Rights Act & other support of blacks & minorities, the reason why Reagan chose Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the infamous murder of 3 civil rights activists to launch his campaign by announcing his support of “States Rights.”
