[dirtboy]

Yes, we are all paying DB. - Which, -- from my view, -- was probably more or less Lotts initial point, and is certainly Wallace T's.

The problem is, you cannot maintain a federalist republic where the member states are allowed to use their own respective powers to deny federally-mandated rights to some of their citizens. That, simply, is untenable and intolerable. So the Dixiecrats brought this upon themselves, and eventually upon the rest of us as well. Had they decided to do the right thing on their own, the feds would have been unable to muster the sympathies of the larger populace to justify large-scale federal action.

[tpaine]

"The problem is, you cannot maintain a federalist republic where the member states are allowed to use their own respective powers to deny federally-mandated rights to some of their citizens." -DB-

I have no argument with that position. But it is equaly important, imo, that states retain the political will & power to fight federal violations of the constitution.
-- In effect, they, the states, have 'sold out' to the powers that be, the socialist wings of both parties.
This, to me, is the real 'problem', and in his own stupid way, is what Lott was trying to say about '48.