I asked this of someone else in a different thread, or this thread many pages ago, didn't receive an answer. Which states do you think wouldn't enact their own civil rights act and instead look to reinstate jim crow type laws in the event that Paul repealed the Civil Rights Act that you are off spouting all this fear-mongering over Dr. Paul?
Here's how I feel about this particular issue.
A. It'll never be repealed, it's simply something he talks about as a state's rights guy.
B. Even if it was repealed it would be a token gesture at best as every state would simply enact a carbon copy of the act.
The fundamental founding document of our nation, the Declaration of Independence, reads in part:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
To our shame, we abandoned this principle in return for unity with those states where slave-holding was an important economic activity. Nonetheless, it seems to me to be perfectly valid that these rights, the very founding spirit and soul of our nation, should be protected at the federal level. No state should be allowed to make a mockery of our Declaration of Independence, and while you are certainly correct that today every state would pass its own Civil Rights act, that certainly wasn't the case in 1964.
I'm fine with states' rights, but the fundamental human rights granted by G-d and recognized by our Declaration of Independence and later by our Constitution and Bill of Rights should not be among those rights devolved to the states. These are not rights granted by man, they are rights granted by G-d and protected by man.