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Barry was against the civil rights legislation because at that time, it was a nearly unprecedented expansion of the Federal government regulation of 'interstate commerce": effectively making anything and everything interstate commerce, and he oppsed it because the legislation was in his view, properly a matter for the States to decide, not Washington.

And we know that the States had a wonderful record in that regard, right?

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[Mike Fieschko]

And we know that the States had a wonderful record in that regard, right?

I've gotta take this as sarcastic, even if you didn't 'close the html'.

Unfortunately, arguing 'States' rights' as a reason for opposing Federal government expansion opens up the argument that 'you'd be in favor of Jim Crow laws'. That's one reason I included Barry's argument that the civil rights laws were unconstitutional as regulating intrastate commerce.