Basically this article and the entire states rights movement amounts to simply accepting "Hey, if states have control the majorities will probably discriminate freely against minorities, and well theres nothing wrong with/that we can do about that…we as 'the majority' are willing to accept the bad (for minorities) with the good (for us)."

That is the fundamental failing of 'states rights'. The author clearly recognizes this, but cannot come up with a counter argument. That is because there is none.

Brian – The mass murder occured on behalf of the southern states-righters. How many slaves and blacks do you think were murdered toward the end of the war? Historical evidence states that confederate generals (including Klan founder Nathan Forrest) stated any black person attempting to leave bondage or fighting with the north faced immediate execution on the field if captured (which is not what happened to union white soldiers…at least until the end of the war). After Reconstruction ended and Jim Crow began (under the banner of 'states rights to establish a separate but equal society within their locals), tens of thousands of blacks and even northern whites were mass murdered.

You cannot escape the past, nor can you ignore the flaws of history. The 'states rights' ideal of the confederacy was uniformly bonded to its racial identity nationalism and brutish slavery endorsement. (read the Lincoln Douglas debates in their entirety to see the truth of this).

So far, the states never had a trial by a jury of their peers– ie. the sovereign nations of the world; and as a result, these nations reaped the whirlwind in the next century, as 150 million+ were likewise murdered under socialism BECAUSE of the American War Between the States.
. Connect the dots.