Does coke constitute an energy drink ? Cause all the sugar in it can help keep you energized and focused , and it goes well with a ton of stuff . <| sep |> The truth is that the modernday States ' Rights iteration started in the 1950 s and 60 s as Massive Resistance . Massive Resistance to what ? Integration . A lot of the modernday States ' Rights crowd is spewing the language of Segregationalists , whether they know it or not and some know it and some don ' t . That doesn ' t mean there was racism in the North . Certainly there was ! But there wasn ' t the culture of Massive Resistance and legislative de juro , not de facto Segregation in the modern era that was fought for under the cause of States ' Rights . De facto Segregation is still a real issue , but it doesn ' t make that person ' s point invalid . CA , on the other hand , was a state with an actual law on the books prohibiting Segregation , signed by Earl Warren himself . There was a case against Orange County for segregating in the 30 s against Latinos , and not only was Orange County integrated , but they made sure it didn ' t happen again . And ironically , there ' s now a movement in California to secede from the union because a Republican was elected President . History repeats itself . As to secession during the Civil War , here are some reasons given by its proponents Easley stated When the slaves are emancipated and made our equals if they do not exterminate us or drive us out of the country we will lose one fifth of our representation in congress we will lose all power to share in the management of the nations . Speech , December 1860 . William Easley King Papers , South Caroliniana Library , University of South Carolina , Columbia , South Carolina . About the Confederacy Constitution The new constitution has put at rest , forever , all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization . This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution . Jefferson in his forecast , had anticipated this , as the rock upon which the old Union would split . He was right . What was conjecture with him , is now a realized fact . But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands , may be doubted . The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution , were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature that it was wrong in principle , socially , morally , and politically . It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with , but the general opinion of the men of that day was that , somehow or other in the order of Providence , the institution would be evanescent and pass away . This idea , though not incorporated in the constitution , was the prevailing idea at that time . The constitution , it is true , secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last , and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured , because of the common sentiment of the day . Those ideas , however , were fundamentally wrong . They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races . This was an error . It was a sandy foundation , and the government built upon it fell when the storm came and the wind blew . Alexander H . Stephens , Savannah , Georgia , March 21 , 1861 So , yeah , The Civil War was about slavery . It wasn ' t about racism per se , though racism is inherent to accept slavery the North was still racist , yeah , doesn ' t make slavery worse than racism , doesn ' t make de facto cultural Segregation worse than de juro legal Segregation , etc . The latter document makes it clear that for slavery to exist longtermforever which was the South ' s goal at the time , you had to inherently accept the racist principles that there was no equality of races . They also said the Founders were in error in not explicitly saying this and in actually believing otherwise , in seeing slavery as an ill at all . Far kinder to our Founders , who are notably silent on slavery , than many will be , suggesting they assumed slavery would go away and wanted it to but had no way to nudge it along in the Constitution so remained silent on it . As to why CA secession is on the ballot or trying to be , that ' s coming from the people , not the government of CA , and those folks know they probably can ' t secede anyway . And it has to do with literally subsidizing other states in a disenfranchised system In our view , the United States of America represents so many things that conflict with Californian values , and our continued statehood means California will continue subsidizing the other states to our own detriment , and to the detriment of our children . It is about California taking its place in the world , standing as an equal among nations . We believe in two fundamental truths 1 California exerts a positive influence on the rest of the world , and 2 California could do more good as an independent country than it is able to do as a just a U . S . state . , fun fact Lincoln would be a Democrat today . The parties have flipped several times . Wilson , D , would be a Republican , etc . Thus , we can say the prostates ' rights Democrats of Lincoln ' s time held both the beliefs of their predecessors the AntiFederalists and DemocraticRepublicans , and those of today ' s modern Libertarians and Republicans . With that noted , we can say the antislavery Republicans of Lincoln ' s time roughly held the beliefs of their predecessors the Federalists and Whigs , but again confusingly also of today ' s modern Progressives and Democrats . Northern and later coastal City Interests Federalists , Whigs , Third Party Republicans , Fourth Party Progressive era Republicans like Teddy , Fifth Party Democrats starting in the 1930 ' s under FDR , then culminating with LBJ and then Clinton , Modern Democrats . Southern and later middle Rural Interests AntiFederalists , DemocraticRepublicans , Third Party Democrats , Fourth Party Progressive Era Democrats Like Wilson , Fifth Party Republicans starting in the 1920 ' s under Harding , Coolidge , and Hoover , then culminating with Nixon and then Bush , Modern Republicans . The south is still the south , the north is still the north , a city is still is a city , and rural voters are still rural . a n d r e p ublicansswitchedplatforms