{"id":10612,"date":"2023-12-28T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T01:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10612"},"modified":"2024-01-01T13:26:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T18:26:02","slug":"10612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10612","title":{"rendered":"Causes Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing that Nikki Haley failed to mention slavery as a cause of the civil war\u00a0 at this New Hampshire town hall. She *did* mention slavery as a cause, she just did so in coded speech common among racists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>States rights!<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s right to do what?<\/p>\n<p>Why, the right to make their own laws and do what is right for that state!<\/p>\n<p>OK, but like an example of one of these laws other than forcing people into slavery?<\/p>\n<p>Umm &#8230; oh, wow. Will you look at the time! Gotta go!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I lived in the US south for years and had some version of this conversation so frequently it was depressing.\u00a0 There were other rights &#8211; South Carolina trying to nullify federal tariffs was a problem in the lead up to the war, too. But (1) hardly the biggest concern and (2) literally not something I&#8217;ve ever found a modern states rights person mention. That&#8217;s more the realm of civil war historians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing that Nikki Haley failed to mention slavery as a cause of the civil war\u00a0 at this New Hampshire town hall. She *did* mention slavery as a cause, she just did so in coded speech common among racists. &nbsp; States rights! The state&#8217;s right to do what? Why, the right to make their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1962],"class_list":["post-10612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2024-republican-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10625,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612\/revisions\/10625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}