I am of the old school "original intent" belief that the U.S. Constitution applies to the federal government, and to the states only in those instances where the states are mentioned. IMHO, no one, not even the Supreme Court, has the right to re-interpret the Constitution in order to apply the Bill of Rights to the states.
Except by the Constitutional ammendment process, which was what happened with the passage of the 14th amendment. Some judges and Justices, especially those from the old Confederacy didn't like that and for years pretended that it didn't mean what says, and what its authors and ratifiers understood it to mean. Even now they hide behind the "due process" clause, to that only rights they approve of are "incorporated", while still ignoring the "priveledges and immunities" clause, which, by the words of its authors and ratifiers, applies the protections of the Bill of Rights to the state governments.
Show me where in the 14th Amendment that it says the states are restricted in any manner other than what is explicitly stated therein.