>>511339496You could never split America into its 50 states. You might be able to break it up into smaller allied nations, but never the 50 states that currently exist. The infrastructure isn't evenly distributed, the populations and resources don't line up. There are countless states that wouldn't be able to *survive* on their own, you think Colorado is going to keep sending all of their water to California and Nevada without federal law forcing them to?
There is just too much that the federal government does, domestically and abroad, for its absence to be anything other than catastrophic for american interests and the american people. You can weaken the federal government, but you can't afford to remove it entirely.
The most likely outcome of you getting your wish would be the West Cost states forming a power block centered around California, the new england states forming another around New York, and between the the two of them they now have the majority of the population, infrastructure, and wealth of the US split between them. Then they launch separate military campaigns to conquer the rest of america and meet somewhere in the middle, with maybe a couple of smaller holdout regions managing to maintain their own independence.