An appeal to or claim to defend states rights is not code for racism or defense of racism or white supremacy.
But historically and so far as I know nobody has ever appealed to or defended states rights except to defend secession and slavery, or state-mandated segregation, or state Jim Crow laws, or the right of employers or public accommodations to discriminate on the basis of race.
"States rights" isn't code for those things.
Those things have been and largely still are the only reason for defending states rights.
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