I’m definitely a proud Californian. I’m from the Bay Area, which I love and definitely think is the best part of the state, but I feel more loyalty to and identity with the state than my region.
When I visted Canada several years back (specifically Ontario and Quebec), I introduced myself as being from California, not America.
I have a very divided loyalty at this point - I’ve been in Alberta almost as long as I was in Saskatchewan where I was born and raised. I’m fairly well transplanted at this point, and I don’t think I would go back to Saskatchewan.
Yes, but only to a very mild degree. I don’t know of any qualities that are distinctively Illinoisian, and I don’t notice anything different when I cross the state line into Wisconsin or Missouri or Indiana.
And being from (downstate) Illinois does not make me feel any allegience or connection to the city of Chicago.
Now I’m kind of wanting a more rigid definition of loyalty in the context of the question. A lot of it seems to just be familiarity, nostalgia, or fondness for a place. In that case I have loyalty to Rome more than Washington D.C. and lots of loyalty to Vancouver, WA, where I grew up even though you would have to pay me a pretty penny to ever live there again or defend it from ad hominem attacks.