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Eschaton on “states rights”:
What I hope comes out of this is the recognition and understanding that when a politician in the south goes on about “states’ rights” they are speaking in code that is well understood by a portion of the electorate – black and white. I don’t mean that all supporters of federalism are objectively pro-segregation (Very big of me, no?), just that in certain contexts and from certain people the use of that phrase and related ones is nothing more than a big “FUCK YOU” to the black population. They get it. And, enough of the whites get it too.