“The 15 states whose legislatures did not ratify the Equal Rights Amendment by the 1982 deadline are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.”
Carter extended the damn thing three extra years. It had a ten year ratification period.
Nine of the 15 states are states which seceded and then were forced back into the Union by federal troops. So those Yankee liberals have only their own ancestors to blame for the fact that the amendment failed to be ratified.