You ever hear of a group titled State Nationals ?
Did you know that the courts prior to the Civil War never saw the United States as one nation, but as a society of States, an association?
Citizenship was first through your State and then Citizen of the United States prior to the Civil War.
With the passage of the 14th Amendment, this has been reversed. Now one is a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State.
Actually, a citizen was a member of a city, although many States call their internal, private law municipal law.....