Death of the Mega-state

The nation-state is dying. Men have begun to transfer their allegiance, loyalty and love from the older nations both upward to the new transnational regimes that are arising and downward to the sub-nations whence they came, the true nations, united by blood and soil, language, literature, history, faith, tradition and memory.
Imperial and ideological nations appear, for the foreseeable future, to be finished. The British and French, greatest of the Western empires, are long gone. Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, the Irish, though its sons had fought to erect and maintain the Victorian "empire on which the sun never set" – and defend it in World War I – fought relentlessly to be free of it. They wanted, and in 1921 won, a small nation of their own, on their own small island.
The Irish preferred it to being part of the British Empire.

Americans believe their country is insulated from the forces which tear apart other countries even when the policies of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA do more to bring about that end than most states around the world. The calls for secession, especially in satellite states such as Hawaii and a united American/Confederate South at odds with the SPP and one world government subordination of sovereignty, will grow in this new century, especially when those who advocate world government start to really make their push with imposition and not persuasion. Hold on. It's going to be a bumpy ride.