Other Republicans have also called for questions of language and religion to be settled federally through amending the federal consitition. We have seen that repeated here this week in this very forum.
I was not saying in my previous post (that you seemed to disagree with)that the south was the regional birthplace and driving force behind this new constitutional movement. I think however this movement was being pushed for campaign purposes, or the movement's goals were being exploited for campaign puposes during this time period, by the party that almost unilaterally now dominates the "red state" south. The issues driving the movement back then were term limits and budget issues, both made quite moot as campaign issues once the Republicans took both houses of Congress and the White House. having finally acheived the power they had sought, they no longer sought limits to their own terms, and certainly have shown once the purse was in their hands that they could spend like pirates.
Anyway, my main point was the irony that the former 'states rights' south has now become the 'red state republican' south that now most strongly seeks federal solutions for modern social problems. The proponents of this new federalist power, the seekers of amendments on marriage for instance, in the red state south are often the very ones of those who still call themselves champions of states rights. We see it right here right now in this forum in several posts from new south republican apologists for the confederacy.