American centralism

One of the things I've noticed in the American Revoultion was the message of unity amongst the various states propagated by the revolutionaires (Hang together of hang separately etc.), could this attitude by transformed into an "anti-statalist" attitude, where the states themselves are seen as dividing forces, and there is a movement ot abolish them and replace with department-analogues like in France which are run from the center and based around geographic division.

If so can anyone make a map of these american "departments"?
 
One of the things I've noticed in the American Revoultion was the message of unity amongst the various states propagated by the revolutionaires (Hang together of hang separately etc.), could this attitude by transformed into an "anti-statalist" attitude, where the states themselves are seen as dividing forces, and there is a movement ot abolish them and replace with department-analogues like in France which are run from the center and based around geographic division.

If so can anyone make a map of these american "departments"?

Not really. Such centralism was an anathema to the Founding Fathers.
 
The basic problem was that the 13 Colonies were a big place with little population, little infrastructure, and little inter-colony contact. This issue was well-known to all parties involved. Actually I think that the "Hang together" slogan was needed because everybody knew that a couple of wise guys in a distant city had little chances to get what they wanted from the locals.

I wouldn't go so far that a strong central gov't would not have been possible or would have brought the US to a soon collapse, or recolonization. However, I do think it would make them weaker, with some paralysis due to an less effective executive and permanent quarrels with the locals.
 
I agree that centralism would not gain popularity during the generation of the Founding Fathers...

However, what if the Bill of Rights did NOT include the 9th and/or 10th Amendments? Without those, the federal government could gradually take over the State's powers of authority piecemeal, until by some time in the 20th Century, the states would be little more than convenient lines on a map.
 
Indeed, as the others have pointed out this isn't very pratical. In fact in many cases the only thing the colonies had in common was opposition to Britain during the ARW, in all honesty I'm supprised the newly formed USA wasn't MORE of a confederation than it was IOTL.
 
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