re: Will there ever be a successful push to drop Ole Miss/Rebels?

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Explain "State's Rights". I love when people use that term.

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The southern state's believed that the Central US government was given authority over a few things (national military, currency, etc) and that the rest of the laws were to be determined at the state level.

In addition to the issue of the southern states wanting to keep slaves, was the issue of trade. The US government instituted a series of trade tariffs in the early 1800s that hurt the southern state's ability to export goods. A few of the state's declared these to be null as they believed was the State's right. Jackson sent the Navy down to enforce the tariff and thus began the catalyst for the Civil War.