Do the individual States have individual cultures anymore? Or have they been homogenized into consumer culture and into the federal government? I feel like the States - Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, for instance - were far more distinct a time ago, not only politically but culturally.
Was the destruction of State cultures necessary to absorb the powers of the States into the federal government? We don't learn our State songs anymore. We don't learn much about our individual States. It seems like we're just citizens of the U.S. and no of a State.
Who learns about these songs anymore:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtaQWbpgLPo
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTfL6TiA7fw
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t_GaW7JoBA
tl;dr How can we get people to take pride in their States and not the federal government? =
That's what the civil war was fought over. Federal government won. Beyond recreationally, states will be indistinguishable from each other in 50 years