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I imagine a lot of US mythology feeds into this actually. People are brought up thinking that US is built on rugged individualism, and to mistrust any sort of a central government. So, it's only natural that they will increasingly blame the federal government for their problems as they start falling on increasingly hard times.
I think there's a lot of reflexive red/blue thinking involved. If your state's red, your state laws are written by team red, but the national laws by red and blue, going back and forth every few years. Wouldn't you want all red laws? If it's just your state, that's what you get, so you win! Blue followed the same thought process, of course. Swing states have relatively low numbers because they'd just trade purple for purple. The numbers not taking a huge dip in the states that would be enclaves if they went through with this indicates that team Yes didn't think through the decision.
For sure, politics in US are becoming increasingly polarized and each party frames all the problems as being the fault of the policies the other party is pursuing.