New sectionalization and territorialization of rights in the USA

The article analyzes the phenomenon of new sectionalization in the United States, which goes beyond simple political division. The author indicates that federalism has ceased to be merely an administrative tool and has become a space for the territorialization of axiological conflicts. Through party 'trifectas' (full control over state power), individual regions create coherent packages of norms regarding freedom, education, and health, leading to legal divergence based on geography. The text contrasts the pluralistic approach to states as 'social laboratories' with the risk of transforming administrative borders into culture war boundaries, the most glaring example of which is the legal status of abortion after the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling.