I like to tell people that 'states rights' made me an anarchist. I grew up in the South, well steeped in the Lost Cause mythos but the more I thought about it the more it seemed if you followed their logic to its conclusion you end up at individual rights/anarchism. Which didn't fit at all with what they were really after.
Kentucky's first gun law, from shortly after it became a state in 1792, was one prohibiting the concealed carrying of pistols.