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Technically it could happen. A US state is allowed to set up any form of government that it wants so long as it is "a Republican Form of Government" (Article 4, Section 4, Clause 1 of the US Constitution). In OTL, these governments have all been virtually the same: a governor with a bicameral legislature (Nebraska is the odd duck with a unicameral legislature). No state has ever wanted to do anything radical, so they basically set up state governments that mirror the federal government. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is with a POD after the Constitution was ratified, make at least one US state adopt a parliamentary form of government.
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