A lot of Freepers don’t get this. Your country is you state that you live in. The USA, FedGov, is a construct of the states and not vice versa.
Absolutely, and if 2/3 of them got together they could clean out DC and put the republic back to the way it SHOULD be.!
The staircase goes:
Land-undeveloped, Land-settled, developed, the village, the town, towns develop territory, territories seek and acquire statehood via Congress and ratification by other states, state delineates boundary lines, counties/parishes.
It is one thing to say” I am an American.”
It is quite another to say, “I am from (state).”
Think on this: There are many G.I. Brats that, thanks to Congress, have no ‘home base’ to claim.