They get relegated (again).

Surrender and comply to their brothers /s

But … states have different partial authonomy. Again, PARTIAL. Otherwise, they arent really part of federal government in the first place.

By ur logic texas can say “well, now we wont have a president but we will have a ruling dynasty.” For me even the authonomy american states actually have is too high. Like how can in a same country have different laws about BASIC human rights?