Ron Paul and the dissolution of the United States

If you've taken any time to look beyond Ron Paul's stance on Iraq and examine his positions on a wide variety of other subjects it becomes clear, to me at least, that he is for the dissolution of these here United States of America. His position, on things such as the IRS, Federal Reserve, Intelligence Agencies, Environment, Education, Social Security etc etc, is that there should be little or no Federal Government or Federal oversight and that all such governance should be left to the States. Dissolution may not be his stated aim, but it would obviously be one possible outcome. Apart from having a joint defense system, what would be left that could be called "United"?

It also strikes me that such a break up of the Union would after a pretty short time result in mini-Unions because wide diversity of policies, such as taxation and social services, between the States, as shown in Europe, doesn't work in the long term. To avoid unbalanced trade patterns or population migration between States, strategic alliances, agreements and entities will be formed. The first form of this would likely be an East / West division, with Pacific coast states forming an alliance while the Atlantic states do the same, leaving the "Heartland" States with a decision to make as to where their economic interests lie. Texas will likely run it alone for a while. The upshot of all of this is that the "United States" will eventually reform along with all it's governing institutions. Could the intermission include revolutionary wars and wars of independence? Possibly but hopefully unlikely, although with the Red / Blue divide so prominantly promoted by our media I wouldn't exclude any possibility.