Joe Biden promised to unite a country allegedly fractured by former President Donald Trump and to be president for “all” Americans.
But six months into his term, all Biden presides over is a rampant desire to split America apart.
Just ahead of July 4, pollster Bright Line Watch released a survey of everyday citizens and political science experts covering several issues and noted, “Americans have reasons to worry about the state of their democracy.”
The survey asked about how processes like gerrymandering, impeachment, filling Supreme Court vacancies, and certifying elections could be weaponized by one side to punish the other.
But amid these “constitutional hardball” matters, Bright Line Watch found, “Distressingly high proportions of respondents say they would be willing to secede from the United States to join a new union of states in their region.”
“Support is higher among Republicans in Republican-dominated regions and among Democrats in Democrat-dominated regions,” the pollster added, “but the idea’s popularity has risen in some partisan groups and regions of the country since Biden’s inauguration.”
Considering what the survey labeled “secession,” the group asked about a willingness to form a mini, self-governing breakaway republic of like-minded states along the following proposal.
- Pacific: California, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, and Alaska.
- Mountain: Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.
- South: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
- Heartland: Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, and Nebraska.
- Northeast: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.
The pollster cautioned that the result “reflects initial reactions by respondents about an issue that they are very unlikely to have considered carefully.
Secession is a genuinely radical proposition and expressions of support in a survey may map only loosely onto willingness to act toward that end.”
Despite that, it seems popular in some quarters with Biden in the White House.
For instance, 47 percent of Democrats in the West indicated they would support a new “Pacific” nation.
Forty-three percent of Republicans in the Rocky Mountain region like the idea of a “Mountain” union, and by the same rate, independents were the biggest group to back the plan for a new “Heartland.”
Yet the strongest support for “secession” came from Republicans in the South.
Two-thirds of GOP respondents in the region favor splitting away from the rest of the country. Additionally, 50 percent of independents there also want to leave. Comparatively, only 20 percent of Southern Democrats want a leave.
In fact, among Democrats, secession fever is lowest in the middle of the country, where they live mostly under the benefit of Republican governors and legislatures.
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Stupid ideas. What are the new mini-nations going to do, kill off those who don’t agree with the new world view? How long can any semblance of homogeneous thinking at the beginning will last? Don’t be stupid.
No.
If we could divide the country into red and blue that would work, but that isn’t that feasible. Better to have some conversations. The majority of us just don’t like Biden. We need to get rid of him and his crazy ideas.
there is a reason the Dems in Republican states are the least likely to want to secede , the ideas and policies they
live under benefit all of us, while those in Democrat controlled states suffer under liberal ideas and policies that
rob us of our freedom , tax us to death, and put our safety in jeopardy.