SURE it can!
Despite the best efforts of the federal government to "educate" the truth about states rights out of the population's group psyche since 1865, we are structurally still a republic so it would be good to remember that and what that actually means. There are a lot of layers of government going on here. Governors don't abdicate in the face of FedGov collapsing. A collapsed FedGov should be vied as a good thing so we can go back to republican fundamentals.