States' Rights... opinions vary depending on where you live.

[WarGamer]

If you live in Texas or Oklahoma, the exercise of States' Rights can seem like a local attempt to take rights away.

In California and New York, States' Rights means shielding you from an authoritarian or tyrannical Federal Gov't.

States' Rights get a bad rap because people think of the Confederacy and some States trying to "get around" Federal laws and regulations that extend rights to larger groups of people.

But I think States' Rights might be JUST what keeps a level of sanity to this nation in it's badly fractured state.

So today, States' Rights sounds scary re: abortion... but States' Rights might be exactly what keeps abortions legal and available.

PS I live in California, more than 35 years.

[elleng]

1. Sadly, assumptions seem to be that EVERYONE in a state wants A or B.

Pretty foolish, imo.

https://www.gkgigs.com/list-of-blue-states-and-red-states/

[WarGamer]

2. No one thinks that 100% of people in ANY state want A or B.

But a larger group of people do control the gov't of a State... the whole Democracy thing.

[roamer65]

3. The 2020's seem to be rhyming with the 1850's so far.

The republic seems to be heading back to a confederation.

1789-1861 it was a confederation.

1865 was when it became a federation. That era is coming to a close.

[WarGamer]

4. +1000 so true...

[roamer65]

5. I see myself as a Michigander first, American second.

The Constitution is simply a compact between the states.

That’s what it is.