The sense of state allegiance has diminished with the increase of personal involvement of the Federal government. Who taxes people more every April 15?
This isn’t the system of managing a country that the founders came up with.
It’s now very like what the Anti-federalists said it would be.
But it took a devastating civil war, and IMO a consolidated national media to pervert it so. And yet there’s still some of the design that perseveres and allows hope.