"Plus you have the little problem that the states were the creation of the Continental Congress. None existed until it asked them to write state constitutions and form as states. Our common belief that we were all Americans pre-dated both the states and the Union. Creation of the Union and the Constitution was an act of the American People not states."
Wrong again, the states were here before the Constitution under the Articles of Confederation.
Please take a little care to understand what I have written before calling me wrong. If you had you would have seen that I did NOT say that the Constitution preceded the states. Check again. Then check the dates of the state constitutions they were all written after the Continental Congress asked for them. Then tell me I am wrong.