The book I just started reading on secularism starts by describing the differences between the colonies before they came together to form the United States of America. Different colonies were populated by Frenchmen or Englishmen or Spaniards, some were strictly Protestant, some were Puritan, some were mainly populated by inmates shipped over against their will.
Made me think about States Rights again. That phrase was used to justify the Civil War and slavery, and disagreements over how strong the central government should be go back to the founding documents. I did a report on the Articles of Confederation in 7th grade, and the reason the first government of the USA failed is that there wasn't enough power in the central government. No taxation, no ability to make treaties, no coordination between the colonies in trade or law enforcement or laws and regulations or the ability to declare war. This set up the colonies to compete against each other, and traders to play one off the other.
That's also largely why the Confederacy failed, by the way.
Today this urge still finds voice among the conservatives who want abortion to be decided state by state.
The ruling behind Roe stated that basic human rights, like dignity and bodily autonomy and self-determination, were basic enough that they needed to be universal across the whole country. Otherwise you've got states competing for citizens again.
1400 Texans a month are leaving the state to get abortions elsewhere.
The former Confederate states still want to reconstitute, and leave the Union. The type of people who would choose to live there are probably people who would be a danger to the United States. They're not content to leave well enough alone.
Two failed attempts previously aren't enough, for those who aren't playing with a full box of crayons.
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