Comment by HWR_14
7 hours ago
> state independence has been dead for the better part of a century.
Can you please put a date on when you think this happened and what were the turning event(s)?
Because you could mean a lot of different points over decades. And what and when you think was the turning point is pretty significant.
An easy to overlook affair called the United States Civil War kicked off the trend.
The interstate highway system that is economically critical for most states, and gets repaired/maintained with federal dollars.
Anytime there is a spat, the federal government dangles those highway dollars to get their way.