General Discussion

The Southern states took umbrage at what they perceived as a tyrannical federal government overstepping its power to control states' internal affairs - in that case, the odious practice of forced labor of enslaved people in their agricultural operations. Here, it's "states' rights" all over again (specifically California, with more likely to follow), but here a state is objecting to the federal government's heavy-handed intervention in its refusal to abuse minority immigrant people. There won't be the same kind of civil war involving actual secession, but we'll be seeing a big fat states' rights argument all over again. And my money is on the next Dem nominee being a governor.