The South IS Rising Again!

Who would have thought that the South would rise again! States rights, again, but to enforce the federal law. Florida, Texas & Virginia (& others) have joined Arizona by filing briefs in support of the Arizona anti-illegal-immigration law.

Solidarity!!!

Viewed another way, the federal government (at least this administration) is seceding from the constitutional union.

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