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I'm actually reading through a book about the Antebellum Period right now called Northern Men with Southern Loyalties. It's a really fascinating and infuriating look at how desperate the soon-to-be-Confederate States were to not just protect, but expand slavery and how the Democratic Party of the time became entirely beholden to their interests.
The Slave owners that ran the South didn't give two shits about "states rights", they wanted to turn the country into a slave nation and expand the institution as far as they could. Between the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the attempts to grab land from Latin America to create more space for slavery, and the Dredd Scott decision, they were willing to use as much power as they could to protect slavery. And that's before we even get to secession.
Those are the people these idiots are supporting when they go on and on about race wars and state's rights and the Civil War.