Thought experiment: What if we let rural America (small towns, villages, farms, rural communities) fully self-govern? Let them have their own laws, military, economy, constitution etc. with no support from the federal government?
From what I noticed it seems that the average farmer eavly disliked any kind of 'big city' governance and wants to be fully left alone and unbothered. This made me wonder, what if we fully left them alone, we don't ask anything from them but they can't also ask anything from us.