Strange I don't recall saying Southerners weren't Americans. Perhaps I should have said "Untied States" or "Federal" soldiers. Do you understand the sentence now?
FYI I'm pretty certain all my people got to this country after your rebellion so none of my ancestors spit on yours during the war (as if it would be my fault if they did!).
You ask am I "against state's rights". I am when the states do horrible or unconstitutional things (like if Brown wanted to legalize coke). My state loves ignoring the second amendment. I feel it's entirely appropriate for the federal government to enforce the second amendment if a state or locality ignores it and I feel it would be entirely appropriate if they stopped a state from legalizing crack or pedophilia or anything like that. Oregon and assisted suicide is a good real life example.
Once upon a time the Federal Government wanted to ban alcoholic drinks. At least they, finding no power to do so, they had the honesty to go for a constitutional amendment.
It was a bad idea, and was later repealed.
For other drugs, they didn’t want the embarrassment of multiple bad amendments and repeal amendments. So they invented the ‘tax stamp’ approach, requiring a tax stamp of 1000$ per ounce for say, Cannibis, but never getting around to printing the tax stamps, so anyone who wants to buy one needs the government to print and sell them tax stamps.
I am told that legalizing drugs would thin out the herd nicely. The drug most associated with inner city violence is alcohol, and that is legal, and taxed. The taxes on alcohol don’t seem to have much effect on violence.
Alcoholic cider is not taxed. Though distilling machinery is bulky, and gives off a distinctive scent, ‘applejack’ concentrates the alcohol through a freezing process, which is hard to control. Where I grew up, every house had a jug on the front porch (and else where) through the winter.
I read it exactly the way you wrote it, pal.
You ask am I "against state's rights". I am when the states do horrible or unconstitutional things
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. Period.