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.
We are no longer a single common people sharing common beliefs. This artificial empire where the socialists live in harmony with the individual freedom lover is a joke, it's over. It is time to recognize that fact and stop living in denial. The socialist are near complete victory building upon huge advances in the last 50 years. They will overtake the entire country soon.
IMO It is better to spilt the country, peacefully hopefully, and allow each side their own destiny rather than force a common socialist destiny on all. The right is not winning, we are losing on all fronts, the individual is being subjugated. Best we have it out now.