What is the effect of the Civil Rights Act on the civil rights of a state?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Ellentuck v. Klein, 570 F.2d 414 (2nd Cir. 1978):

We decline to intercede in this essentially state affair and to extend the Civil Rights Act beyond its outermost intendments. 27 See South Gwinnet Venture v. Pruitt, 491 F.2d 5 (5th Cir.) (en banc ), cert. denied, 419 U.S. 837, 95 S.Ct. 66, 42 L.Ed.2d 64 (1974).

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