FedGov™ was created by the states to be the equal to the states, no reign over them. As such it is an entity that contains millions of entrenched bureaucrats who's sole purpose is self sustenance. It is far past time to dissolve this monstrosity and split the USA up into autonomous regions. Hopefully one of those regions would uphold Constitutional values and those people wishing to maintain those values could vote with their feet and go there.
Congress stipulated that the Constitution be approved by the PEOPLE “gathered” in CONVENTIONS in the states. It was in no way a product of state governments which could be changed by those governments. It was intended to be the sovereignty of the PEOPLE not the states. It can only be changed by that people acting through the instrument.
Removing the appointment of Senators by state legislatures reduced state influence even further. But this was one of the eventual products of the Jeffersonian opposition to the Federal concept, the spread of “democracy”.
Trivial ideas of “regions” does not even come close to addressing the problems of our government which lie entirely with the PEOPLE of the United States. We would be in a world of REAL tyrannies had we been regionalized in 1865 not to mention recurrent civil war between those regions. It is sheer fantasy to pretend otherwise. But what is Not is always more righteous than what Is to some people.
The American People is one people (recognized even before the Revolutionary War and has an alarming tendency to fall for left wing class warfare campaigns since the time of and utilization by Jefferson. It is our deadly weakness.