• Facebones
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    I grew up in the country in the bible belt. I bought the states rights argument for a long time. I was never a Confederacy stan, but yknow sure I get it.

    Then one day I actually read everyone’s secession declarations and basically all of them name slavery out the jump. Welp, fuck them. 🤷‍♂️

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      Article 1 of the Confederate Constitution says Slavery is a god given right and makes it illegal for any Confederate state to outlaw slavery.

      So it actually reduced States Rights.