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Article: Southern Rights Movement
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- Dictionary of American History
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SOUTHERN RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SOUTHERN RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
For the greater part of American history, a disposition to resist federal authority has flourished in the South. Regional leaders have frequently expressed concern that national majorities would overwhelm southern institutions through control of the federal government. Consequently, southern politicians and intellectuals developed theories designed to prevent such interference. Frequently linked to the defense of slavery, these notions evolved over the first half of the nineteenth century, culminating in the secession of eleven southern states in 1860 and 1861. Yet defense of southern rights continued well into the twentieth century, ...