July 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A new poll suggests that a significant percentage of Americans on both sides of the political aisle would support seceding from the United States.
The YouGov and BrightLineWatch poll conducted last month asked participants whether they would “support or oppose” their state “seceding from the United States to join a new union,” the Daily Wire reports.
Overall, 37 percent of participants reported they were in favor of secession, a number BrightLineWatch said was “distressingly high.” According to the study, roughly two thirds of Republicans in the southern states of the U.S. and almost half of Democrats in the Pacific coast states support separation from the union.
Analysis by the Daily Wire found that “Republicans and independents in the South were most favorable to secession, at 66% and 50% respectively. Of Democrats polled, 47% in the Pacific states said they want to break off. Sizable portions of independents in the Heartland and Mountain states also wanted to form their own country.”
BrightLineWatch, an initiative dedicated to “monitor[ing] democratic practices in the U.S.” and calling “attention to threats to American Democracy,” said that “[a]s the country turns 245 years old, Americans have reasons to worry about the state of their democracy.” It said its study found “deep partisan polarization in
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