DBWI: The US wasn't a unitary state

We all know that during the 20th Century a highly controversial constitutional amendment was ratified that transferred legislative and administrative powers from state and local governments to the federal government on such a sweeping scale as to have eroded any real state-level autonomy and created a de facto unitary state. What would happen if this didn't happen, and how could one have prevented it?
 
Have a less destructive civil war the one IOTL killed 1.5 million people thanks to Confederate succession and firmly solidified the Federal Government over the state governments. The Constitutional amendment was simply making it official
 
If the southern states had not attempted to secede in response to the Civil Rights Act, perhaps the backlash against the idea of states having power would happen.

I read somewhere that President Rockefeller seriously considered scrapping the United States altogether and starting over with a new American Republic.
 
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Less economically developed. Several States had seriously underfunded their education systems,once they were properly funded the economies of those perpetually States grew.Mississippi now has the fourth biggest economy in the nation behind California, New York and Texas.
 
I suppose the official name of the nation would be one letter longer. It would cost a fortune in extra ink over the years :extremelyhappy:

United States of America vs United State of America
 
I read somewhere that President Rockefeller seriously considered scrapping the United States altogether and starting over with a new American Republic.
I've also heard that his plan for a "Second American Republic" involved the replacement of the states with "districts" based on the reorganization of the Lander in the German Republic into Bezirke in the 1940s.
 
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