Go SC! This just reminds me how our current cultural/political landscape is very similar to the decades preceeding the civil war. That war began as a “states rights” issue. We find the Fed government doing today what it did then, and in 1861 SC fired the first salvo. Today we don’t have to get “violent” we just take it to court, and SC is “firing” a legal salvo at this administration regarding the issue of states righs.
Probably more than ever we are seeing clearly that the states rights issue today is not driven georgraphically, or even along racial lines, but is purely an issue about how much power we will allow the Fed Gov’t to continue grabbing? This country is a smoking “tinder box.”
The war ended nearly 150 years ago, and we still have not come to terms with the “war contraband”.
Nobody would have fought for the Union if they could foresee this environment; the descendants of the Union dead are hated by the descendants of the slaves they freed, and the latter is given preferential treatment over the latter for jobs, college admissions, “victim” status, etc.
I’m proud that nobody in my family played a hand in this by fighting for the Union.