[thecavemaster]

No the Federal govt. has ways to manipulate the state govt. It is called funding. Funding for roads and education for example. If those in Tusc. didn't want to let blacks attend their college, instead of sending in troops, which these days would probably get very ugly, just cut funding to the schools in Bama. Force the oppressors to allow the rights of those who are being oppressed without sending in armed soldiers.

See Fidel Castro. See Sadaam Hussein. Economic sanctions and embargos seldom sway the entrenched power, the ego driven leader. Gradualism, in my mind, is not the standard for people whose civil rights are being grossly denied in America.