The people in those states are your fellow citizens. If you don't care about their well being, then you might as well split now. What exactly makes you United besides a cultish devotion to your origin story and a self image of Freedom Loving that hasn't matched reality since your independence.
The freedom for individual states rights you espouse has always been used for almost exclusively civil right violations.
If you don't do something about that, you are complicit. Now you might say there is nothing you CAN do about it.
But that is the problem. That is WHY the rest of the free world looks at you and says "You are not a democracy."
Because you couldn't change this even if you wanted to.
The last time you tried you came close. You had to fight a war over it but you almost got there. Then you fucked it up during the Reconstruction.
The freedom for individual states rights you espouse has always been used for almost exclusively civil right violations.
If you don't do something about that, you are complicit. Now you might say there is nothing you CAN do about it.
But that is the problem. That is WHY the rest of the free world looks at you and says "You are not a democracy."
Because you couldn't change this even if you wanted to.
The last time you tried you came close. You had to fight a war over it but you almost got there. Then you fucked it up during the Reconstruction.