States rights reign supreme on social issues. What are the consequences for red states?

[carnivorousplant]

@Hari_Seldon

People care about states’ rights only when the feds pass laws that restrict them

Just as people don’t worry about cheeseburgers until a law makes them illegal. Could you elaborate, or was that just a chance to poke Southerners?

[Hari_Seldon]

@carnivorousplant

Just as people don’t worry about cheeseburgers until a law makes them illegal. Could you elaborate, or was that just a chance to poke Southerners?

Go back and read my whole post.

[AskNott]

Some of the states passing anti-abortion laws are rumbling about chasing down women who leave to get abortions and those who get abortion drugs from out-of-state. That’s not states’ rights.

[Senegoid]

@carnivorousplant

@Hari_Seldon

People care about states’ rights only when the feds pass laws that restrict them  

Just as people don’t worry about cheeseburgers until a law makes them illegal. Could you elaborate, or was that just a chance to poke Southerners?  

From @Hari_Seldon 's point of view, we United Statesians are ALL Southerners.

[DorkVader]

@Hari_Seldon

People care about states’ rights only when the feds pass laws that restrict them. All those southern states’ righters before the civil war were all in favor of the fugitive slave law that overrode some northern state laws that outlawed forcible return of escaped slaves. This view of states’ rights continues today.

@AskNott

Some of the states passing anti-abortion laws are rumbling about chasing down women who leave to get abortions and those who get abortion drugs from out-of-state. That’s not states’ rights.

I think these two sum up pretty much what we can expect for the next number of years, with the appropriate variations on the theme for assorted topics such as gay marriage etc.