Yes the US should defederate from itself. In fact I think a perfect map of the US is broken down not by region or state, but by county. Break the US down into small bite sized chunks so that it has no choice but to fight amongst itself until the end of time
Yes, long live the People's Commonwealth of Pennsylvania! We will take back the Philadelphian suburbs of New Jersey from the yoke of imperialist New York City!
The city-state New York City tried to intervene, but they realized they would have to cross into Jersey and the Neo-NYPD armed forces were thrown back.
If you took the Northern chunk of IL so Chicago and Rockford were in the MN/WI/MI Republic, it would kind of make sense. Southern Illinois is basically Kentucky
No we should keep our federal government. That said state lines are arbitrary and should be redrawn to balance the population. Honestly we could get away with 7 or less districts rather than 50 states.