• Azal
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    3 hours ago

    No no no, States Rights was never about owning people.

    The CSA constitution outright said states couldn’t make laws stopping people from owning people.

    States Rights came up post LBJ with the Republican Southern Strategy to tell all the former dixiecrats ‘You should vote for us because the national government took away your states rights to legally be racist shitbags’