It's more about states rights or individual rights than about civil rights

Rand Paul's recent comment on civil rights, which has caused a feeding frenzy in the media, was really more about states rights or individual rights than about civil rights. “Individualism” is the error of the libertarians, since group selection is the primary selection category, but that is for another essay.

The reaction to Rand shows that the media is going to once again kick the can of ethnic relationships down the street. The media can avoid the subject, as they were taught to do in our nations schools and colleges (and through pressure from lobbys) but this subject will not go away.

In the future the protection of states rights may be the only way to hold together fractured ethnic conclaves. The media will probably prefer totalitarian methods attempting to force states and ethnic cultures to conform to government edicts, demanding that we are all the same and that we must all be one equal conglomerate, but it won't work. Denying states and ethnic cultures their legitimate autonomy never works in the long run.

Pat Buchanan and others have been warning us that the drive to ethnic independence has brought down every empire. States rights protected with a light federalism, as in the original Constitution, can hold America together, without revolution.