For those who think socialism is so horrible...?

[Mephistopheles]

While I do believe that states have rights, they still should answer to the federal government. We have a Constitution for a reason. If we're going to let the states govern themselves entirely, we might as well grant them all their sovereignty and become a continent of 50 different countries. Then all the Southern States can rename themselves Jesusland and become theocracies like Iran. Anyone who is gay, non-Christian, or doesn't attend church can be stoned to death as would those who engage in premarital sex.

Then they can all have their own currencies, but of course wages and money values would be much lower in the South. In which case, those who want to have a better quality of life can emigrate to California or wherever. Then they'll have to wait in line to get their green cards which would probably be more expensive because the currency would be less in value. Then those Southerners would understand first-hand what the migrant workers from Mexico have to endure every day.

Let's use them for cheap labor. All the while, Walmart, Nike, and several other corporations can start outsourcing jobs to Mississippi and Alabama and start running sweatshops there because the people think paying taxes, environmental laws, and unions are all evil liberal entities. Then when those corporations make little kids start working in dangerous places and dumping toxic chemicals into the water which makes the people downstream start pooing their brains out, we can all learn a valuable experience. Then we can ask them how evil those labor unions, minimum wages, and the EPA are.