Oct 16 2012
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Rights that were actually left up to the states. Let's review:
- Slavery: The southern states had no problem with keeping humans as slaves
- Segregation: States thought segregation was just fine and dandy
- Women's right to vote: The states had no problem with suppressing women's votes
- Child Labor: The states thought this was a cool idea too
- Social Security: Nope. Bad idea according to individual states
- Jim Crow laws against blacks: Yup. The states were a-ok with that one too. Still are apparently
- Interracial Marriage: Nope. The states were having none of that noise
- States Rights: Every time a Republican utters those words, this is what they want to take America back to