Answer:
wanted to defend slavery
Explanation:
In the 19th century, Southern Democrats were whites in the South who believed in Jacksonian democracy. In the 1850s they defended slavery in the United States, and promoted its expansion into the West against northern Free Soil opposition
I would say that King probably said that people have a moral right to obey just laws just as they have that same moral right to disobey unjust laws such as the laws of segregation between whites and black Americans in some southern states.
