Re: CHAT: Gale Norton (was Californian secessionists)
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 5, 2001, 9:29 |
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:03:37 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:
>Andrew Chaney wrote:
>
>>>In any event, in the more conservative parts of the country,
>>>such as the Mountain states and the South, the pre-1860 notion
>>>of "state-sovereignty" is still surprisingly widely held, as
>>>Bush Interior Secretary, Gale Norton, reminded us all so
>>>stunningly this year.
>>>
>>
>> How so? What did Gale Norton do?
>
>She said that Confederate soldiers died to defend state
>sovereignty, and that they were right to do so, essentially.
"States' rights" sounds good, but the trouble with it is that it usually
turns out to mean letting the scoundrels who control the states run
unchecked. In the Civil War many Floridians initially joined the
Confederate army because they didn't think someone in far off Washington
not familiar with local conditions should tell them what to do. They found
out, to their sorrow, that the planters were worse.
Jeff
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