"Subjects" before, "Citizens" after. (After 1776.)
They deliberately changed the term of attachment to the nation from Monarchy to Republican.
Nobody was born a "Citizen" prior to 1776. (Except people in Switzerland, the only Republic in the world at the time.)
I think Ragusa (Dubrovnik) was a Republic in 1776.
Semantics, matters not.
Thus citizens before, and citizens after the Constitution was crafted and adopted by all of the states, of the now established United States of America.