On the eve of this week's Supreme Court decision on the Little Rock school integration crisis, the traditional lines of basic national conflict were hardening around the South. The conflict: states rights v. federal law. In the South last week, as it had been through plantation growth, secession, civil war, surrender, reconstruction and recovery, states' rights was the legalistic bond that held most Southerners together. "We live in a federated system," said Virginia's courtly Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. in Richmond, "in which the Federal Government has no powers other than those...
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