{"id":69803,"date":"2021-07-16T03:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T08:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69803"},"modified":"2021-07-16T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:37:37","slug":"69803","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69803","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Shocking Poll Finds Many American Now Want to Secede From the United States<\/a><\/p>\n

Support for secession is growing among every partisan group in the months following the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol but particularly among southern Republicans, a new poll found.<\/p>\n

Bright Line Watch<\/a>, in conjunction with YouGov, found that citizen support for their state or region to secede from the U.S. is greatest in the South \u201cwhere support was already highest (and has the greatest historical precedent).\u201d Overall, 37 percent of respondents indicated a \u201cwillingness to secede.\u201d<\/p>\n

Support among southern Republicans grew from polling conducted in January, which showed 50 percent were in favor of secession. But the number leapt to 66 percent in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy this summer, we anticipated, political tempers may have cooled \u2014 not necessarily as a result of any great reconciliation but perhaps from sheer exhaustion after the relentless drama of Trump,\u201d the group wrote in an analysis of the survey\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n

Respondents were asked: \u201cWould you support or oppose [your state] seceding from the United States to join a new union with [list of states in new union]?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bright Line Watch constructed\u00a0five distinct regions that a particular respondent\u2019s state would join and added the relevant states to the question.<\/p>\n

Brightline Watch warns that the numbers might be skewed given the complexities of the matter and because the group believes it is an issue that respondents were \u201cvery unlikely to have considered carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group reiterated that the respondents on either side of the political aisle indicated some support for the idea and that it rose within both partisan groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublicans are most secessionist in the South and Mountain regions whereas it is Democrats on the West Coast and in the Northeast,\u201d the group writes. \u201cIn the narrowly divided Heartland region, it is partisan independents who find the idea most attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n

YouGov collected the responses of 2,750 Americans in a public survey from June 16\u201326, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shocking Poll Finds Many American Now Want to Secede From the United States Support for secession is growing among every partisan group in the months following the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol but particularly among southern Republicans, a new poll found. Bright Line Watch, in conjunction with YouGov, found that citizen support for their … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69811,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69803\/revisions\/69811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}