A quarter of Americans want their region to secede
A quarter of American adults want their state to secede — Texans, Californians and New Yorkers are closer to secession. Efforts to leave the United States are gaining momentum from California to Texas, but these states are not leading in separatist sentiment.
Connecticut is the most contented American state, and only 9 percent of its residents would like it to secede from the United States, writes the Daily Mail. But calls for Texas to secede from the United States are growing louder, and supporters say it could stem the flow of migrants from Mexico without being subject to restrictions from the federal government.
The Lone Star State may have the most is a vocal separatist movement in the country, but it is not the most popular, the Daily Mail notes.
More than a third of Alaskans—36 percent—want the Last Frontier to cease to exist and leave the union, a new poll shows.
This is a more popular movement than the 31 percent of residents who seek «Texit,» as the Texas exit is called.
It's not just Republican-leaning states that want to leave, according to a YouGov pollster. Democratic-run California and New York are next in line to jump ship, with 29% and 28% of residents favoring secession, respectively.
Residents of Oklahoma (28 percent), Nebraska (25 percent), Georgia (25 percent), Florida (24 percent) and Washington (24 percent) are also eyeing the door to exit the US, writes the Daily Mail.
At the other end of the spectrum is Connecticut, where only 9 percent of its relatively happy residents are looking for a way out.
Sociologist Taylor Orth says a poll last month of about 35,000 adults found «significant support» for US partition.< /p>
Nationwide, 23 percent of respondents said they would like to see their state secede. About half (51 percent) opposed secession, and 27 percent were unsure.
Paul Roberts, a journalist for the Seattle Times, believes the separatists' star is on the rise in the United States. He attributed this to «political polarization, growing tensions between cities and rural areas, and disagreements between states… and the federal government on issues such as immigration and border security.»
Researchers found that young people are more likely to to the department than their senior colleagues.
And Republicans are bigger fans of division than Democrats, regardless of whether they live in Red or Blue states, Taylor Orth points out in her report.
States with the largest share of separatists are not directly related to politics, says in the study. Researchers say it has more to do with a state's size, population and perhaps even its economy.
Separatist-leaning Alaska, Texas, California and New York rank high in population and land area. They also have enough economic clout to go it alone — with the exception of Alaska.
However, Alaska already has enough cash from oil and mineral production to pay residents more than $1,300 each a year. Alaska's influential Independence Party has pushed for decades for a statewide referendum while calling for gun rights, homeschooling, small government and anti-abortion policies.
But popular support alone is not enough to cause states to secede—as the breakaway Confederacy demonstrated during the Civil War. Many legal scholars say the U.S. Constitution does not allow states to opt out.
The poll found that Americans were less confident. About a quarter said states could secede under the Constitution, while a third said they could not. Another four in ten were unsure.
Texas Republicans are among the strongest supporters of secession in the US, with 44 percent supporting Texit. Supporters say the dramatic move, inspired in some way by Britain's exit from the European Union, will help resolve a growing immigration border crisis and a fight with Washington over who controls the border with Mexico. The fight, pitting President Joe Biden, a Democrat, against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, has exposed a divide in America.
Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, says secession is the only way to get » a reasonable immigration system.» He recently told AFP that his movement, founded in 2005, has never been closer to achieving its goal.
But Governor Abbott has poured cold water on the plan. Speaking on 60 Minutes, he said claims he was a Texit fan were «false stories». His sending of Texas National Guardsmen to the border was not an attempt to usurp the federal government, but simply a way to «enforce the law,» he added.