Unfortunately, the very real issue of States' Rights has become conflated with "Slavery." i.e., One logical voice of reason vs. 50 million Maya-Angelou-powered screaming Okra Winfreys inspiring the greatly feared "urban riots;" that fear the only cogent reason we have this Mumbo-Jumbo fellow in the WH to begin with.
Are we ready for another Constitutional Convention? Repealing the 17th Amendment might be one good outcome. Placing the states in charge of the taxes generated within their borders might be another.
On to 2014!
Repeal of the seventeenth can be gotten around if the states rearrange their primary laws. For instance, to get on the primary, someone would have to be placed there by the state legislature, then the people of the state can vote for whomever they want from a field of candidates that their state legislature has deemed representative of the legislature's business at the federal level. This would both restore the state's abilities to select their representation in the Senate as well as satisfy the Seventeenth Amendment's requirements as to popular vote elections of Senators.
We already have a filtering process as it is in regards to who is able to run as Senator so adding the state's ability to choose the entire field of candidates would not impose any new restrictions. The point is that with this approach, the states can deny a candidate his qualifications to run if that candidate has failed to represent the state's interest in the Senate.
States rights have been backed up against the wall. They are responding and the push back won't end for some time.