Revitalizing the states, light federalism, and the Republic, with de facto ethnostates

A nation usually centralizes or is forced to centralize because they are surrounded by threats from outside, but that wasn't the case with the United States, although the cold war presented a bit of a problem. For about 200 years the United States affirmed the separation of powers, giving states control of the larger parts of life and leaving the central government for defense, tariffs, etc. Our creeping centralization happened from inside, promoted by people who benefited, at least in the short term, financially and otherwise, from the centralization. Our imperialism, our border-less consumerism, and our hedonism is a real corruption of the United States. In an excellent review of the work of John le Carre in Chronicles (January 2014), Wayne Allensworth quotes le Carre as saying, “ if the West chokes on its own materialism, then it may turn out to have lost the Cold War.”

I think of revitalizing the separations of powers in the United States (and perhaps elsewhere) with states and regions that are, or become, de facto ethnostates, which is making what is usually inevitable (and healthy) our conscious choice---all empires devolve into something like ethnostates. Our Constitution can even accommodate this reality. Ethnopluralism relates most harmoniously to actual human nature which has been and remains kin-centered, gender defined, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among other things,with group-selection as the primary unit of selection. This kind of change for us, which is, and needs to be, a legal revitalization, and not revolution, could save our now centralized and corrupted nation. This could give us all, all ethnic cultures (who in reality have not melted) another 200 years, or more.  Human beings are capable of cooperative competition between the states, if protected by a light federalism. 

This perspective remains politically incorrect, the academic world continues to prefer cultural Marxism (political correctness), and the media slanders this idea as malevolent. But over time I think this perspective will gain ground here, and perhaps in Europe, Russia and China as well.  There are hints of it now here and there.