[cbd1984]

> But Washington has been taking more power away from the states for the last ~100 years or so.

Yes, and there are very good reasons for that, beginning with us having to fight a Civil War because the South felt the need to keep slavery and continuing on to us having to fight the South to get it to enforce the laws preserving Civil Rights for black people and other minority groups.

Shifting power back to local governments doesn't mean the locals in general get more say. Historically, it's meant that the most violent and richest of the locals got to lord it over everyone else in the region until the Feds stepped in to clean things up.

> This leads to large Washington-imposed mandates forced upon the states and upon the people, which leads to hostility.

Fine. Hostility is better than lynchings.

[clarkmoody]

Ah yes, the old "states' rights are bad because slavery" chestnut.

So should we repeal the 9th and 10th Amendments?

[cbd1984]

No. Should we repeal the 14th?

And, just to make it clear to everyone else, slavery isn't the only problem the Feds had to step in to solve. The KKK, Jim Crow, company stores, and pretty much every other type of institutionalized bigotry had to be handled at the Federal level because the local governments weren't even trying.