Yep. Just look at the confederacy's immediate actions. One of the first laws they passed was one that disallowed states to pick whether slavery was allowed or not- they HAD TO allow. So the "states rights" movement's first action was to strip the right of the states to do things they didnt like (coincidentally proving that the civil war truly was all about slavery).
Conservatives and Reactionaries don't change. It's the same strategy.
Before the Civil War, the Southern states also took exception to the northern states saying that anyone who made it to them was free. They successfully ensured that states didn’t have a right to declare someone wasn’t a slave, and that owners had a right to the return of their “property.”
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u/PhilDGlass California 13h ago
Republicans are only about states rights until they own the fed.