new balkanization news, come get your civil war slop
The Utah bill, introduced as the “Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act,” was signed into law by Gov. Spencer Cox on January 31.
“The Legislature may, by concurrent resolution, prohibit a government officer from enforcing or assisting in the enforcement of a federal directive within the state if the Legislature determines the federal directive violates the principles of state sovereignty,” the law states.
With the bill, Utah joins a long-standing small-c conservative push to promote states’ rights, particularly when the federal government is controlled by the opposing party. It’s a debate going back to the original founders of the US Constitution, through the “Nullification Crisis” of 1832-33, when South Carolina tried to avoid paying federal tariffs, and into the Southern states’ attempts to avoid racial integration in schools in the 1950s.
Most recently, Texas and the US have been in a legal battle over security at the US-Mexico border, historically under the federal government’s control. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the federal government, but the tight vote suggested the principles of the Supremacy Clause “might be in a degree of flux,” according to CNN Supreme Court analyst Steve Vladeck.
Utah Sen. Scott Sandall, who sponsored the Sovereignty Act, said he hoped the bill spreads to other states.
Utahan nationalism in the United States was something quite different from, let us say, Texan, Floridan or Californian nationalism in that the former was a mere whim, a folly of a few dozen petty-bourgeois intellectuals without the slightest roots in the economic, political or psychological relationships of the country; it was without any historical tradition, since Utah never formed a nation or government, was without any national culture, except for the reactionary-romantic tablets of Joseph Smith.
this is a funny bit but precisely backwards lol, Texas/California are the baseless, the Utahn cult freaks have the greatest basis for an independent existence of the secessionists. a religion is an evergreen justification for separatism
Didn't Utah literally try to form an independent government when the Mormons were getting pogrom'ed from every other state. Only the problem was, that forming a state in a desert takes time and people, and the Utah territory was annexed by the US before the mormons even got enough people there to form more than 2 towns.
they fought an undeclared war on yankee settlers and soldiers until an army showed up and forced them to accept annexation. this was 10 years after Guadaloupe Hidalgo had officially transferred utah to the US
Waging war on the US government because you want to do a slightly different kind of theocracy seems like such a strange decision. Though I know that a lot of mormon converts in the early days were recruited straight from Britain, which is why Utah today is one of the least germanic states in the US, and it's too satanically racist to allow central americans to live there with any permance.
whoops that was a very poor characterization, they weren't trying to secede really, they'd just entered the US basically managing their own affairs, and they raised militias and did some massacres when the federal gov't decided to appoint officials and enforce anti polygamy laws.
rolled right over when the army arrived, to the officers' disappointment
We’re they getting exterminated or did they just get told to leave town? I know that Joseph Smith pushed the persecution narrative a couple times. I know that they did get persecuted but don’t remember to what extent
Don't think they were ever exterminated, but doesn't "leave town or suffer vigilante violence" count as a pogrom, given that the local authorities knew about the things that were happening and either participated or didn't care to stop them?