I live in Alabama. Beautiful beaches and great football, but we have more people on welfare than those of us employed, an archaic state constitution, dramatically bad public education, overcrowded prisons, significant population with drug/alcohol problems, human trafficking, gangs, illegal aliens, racial prejudice (by all groups—white, black, etc), poor economic base, poor tax structure, etc. Things will only get worse...
All states have similar problems.
Last June, I wrote my state representative about a convention of the states.
He responded and asked when it would be convenient for me to have a chat.
We got together for about an hour. He was aware of a growing grass roots movement to reassert state sovereignty and thanked me.
Now, I didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday. I don’t imagine anything will happen soon. But, great things begin with great ideas.