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TheAccountant · 43w
I know the president is elected of course, but if you are from Wyoming your chances of affecting the elections surely are pretty close to zero?
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U.S. states are integral parts of a single nation with shared sovereignty. Our language, history, culture and tradition are highly integrated and emerged over a fairly short period of time.

The idea of taking an existing nation and making a supercedeing nation state on top seems like a massive forfeit of sovereign power.
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thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ BIP110 · 43w
The original colonies weren't national states. More like city states with slightly different rules and cultural values.
TheAccountant · 43w
I understand what you mean now. Yes the common culture is huge. But the States *could* have gone independent and North America would be a land of 50 independent countries. In fact, in Europe I tend to think of countries as equivalent to states (Portugal has the same population as Michigan, etc) B...