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Why would states persist in a union that made them irrelevant? The politics are still as relevant today as it was then.

• s2g 9y ago
  Because the alternative is worse.
• mikeash 9y ago
  It’s way harder to leave than it was to refrain from joining. Another major factor is that Americans mostly see themselves as citizens of the USA first, and citizens of their state a distant second.