Independence sentiment in the states


Daily Kos has been doing some interesting polling. And despite being a progressive/left site, their polling outfit is respected as being politically unbiased.
In Texas, 48 percent of Republicans (and 35 percent overall) would prefer Texas to be an Independent nation. In Georgia, 43 percent of Republicans (and 27 percent overall) want independence.

These were state polls, so they asked these two questions in their weekly national poll.
Do you think the state that you live in would be better off as an independent nation or as part of the United States of America?

Would you approve or disapprove of the state that you live in leaving the United States?

In general, independence sentiment is, not too surprisingly, markedly stronger regionally in the south, and among Republicans.

Hawaii's situation is very different historically/legally from any "other" state, and very different politically in terms of the make-up of the independence sentiment (much more a product of the progressive/left than the conservative/right like elsewhere), so I think there's probably very little parallel here overall, but it sure would be interesting to see these questions asked in Hawaii with a large enough sample size to break out the results from the rest. My guess is that it would be relatively high overall, and tend more Dem than Republican compared to other states.


Posted: Wed - May 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM    
   
 
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