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Showing Original Post only (View all)Many red-state Trump voters say they'd be 'better off' if their state seceded from U.S. [View all]
Red-state Donald Trump voters are now more likely to say theyd be personally better off (33%) than worse off (29%) if their state seceded from the U.S. and became an independent country, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
Its a striking rejection of national unity that dramatizes the growing culture war between Democratic- and Republican-controlled states on core issues such as guns, abortion and democracy itself. And an even larger share of red-state Trump voters say their state as a whole would be better off (35%) rather than worse off (30%) if it left the U.S.
The survey of 1,672 U.S. adults, which was conducted from July 8 to 11, comes as a series of hard-line conservative decisions by the Supreme Court coupled with continued gridlock on Capitol Hill have shifted Americas center of political gravity back to the states, where the parties in power are increasingly filling the federal void with far-reaching reforms of their own.
The further apart they push their states on voting rights, on misinformation, on post-Roe regulations, on gun-safety measures the more the country morphs into what one political analyst has described as a federated republic of two nations: Blue Nation and Red Nation.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-many-red-state-trump-voters-say-theyd-be-better-off-if-their-state-seceded-from-us-160454042.html