alt Hacker News> 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.
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WarmWash • today at 5:45 PM
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.
An easy to overlook affair called the United States Civil War kicked off the trend.