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A major reason that the slogan “states’ rights” became tarnished in the 1950s and 1960s was that it had been used by

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It was used by groups such as the KKK, John Birch Society, and southern opponents of civil rights in general to take the view that states should be given latitude to enforce Jim Crow-style laws that discriminated against citizens on the basis of race or skin color.
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