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Passed 3-2 along party lines. Remember this when you're going to vote. Elections matter.

How could ANYBODY vote against this?

Sure, that is how it was designed. The reason it doesn't work that way anymore is because of a continuous parade of states violating Americans' rights, each one so egregious that people said "yeah, it was designed the way macinjosh describes, but boy it turns out a lot of these state 'cultures' or 'identities' are producing despicable outcomes for our fellow Americans, and we should step up to prevent those abuses."

"I know better than the people that voted for their own state government so I am going to force my will upon them."

Mindsets like this are actually why democracies fail.

What?

In that case, why have a state government? Why not have everything determined county-by-county?

In fact, why have it be county rule? Why not just neighborhood by neighborhood?

You place the locus of control according to the problems you need to solve. Neighborhoods combine to cities combine to counties combine to states combine to countries in order to be competitive and thrive against the broader environment. Yes, it does typically entail a loss of autonomy, but the benefit is that your little independent enclave doesn't get taken over by the next-strongest neighbor.