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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Jul 15, 2022, 02:18 PM Jul 2022

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 they’d 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.

It’s 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 America’s 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

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Fine with me.. nini Jul 2022 #1
Good riddance. triron Jul 2022 #21
to horriblstinking -- DEPLORABLE garbage !!!!! Trueblue1968 Jul 2022 #50
because they are f'ing idiots HAB911 Jul 2022 #2
They don't have enough sense to realize Blue states financially subsidize them today. MLAA Jul 2022 #3
They also don't seem to realize that SS and Medicare are federal programs. shrike3 Jul 2022 #7
Most of them believe the opposite is true. Mariana Jul 2022 #30
Exactly! MLAA Jul 2022 #39
Those delusional fuckwits would all end up under the heels of kleptocratic presidents-for-life, paulkienitz Jul 2022 #4
Nothing like montanacowboy Jul 2022 #5
Cut off all their federal funding & see how fast they change their minds. CrispyQ Jul 2022 #6
Good, yank them off of social security and other federal programs, since anyways, the blue SWBTATTReg Jul 2022 #8
Good Luck Surviving Without All The Tax Handouts You Get From Blue States ChoppinBroccoli Jul 2022 #9
A lot of red states, like the one where I live, Haggard Celine Jul 2022 #10
It's just more southern bullshit. They still contest the outcome of the Civil War Walleye Jul 2022 #11
The same mindset today as then: billh58 Jul 2022 #20
So fucking true Walleye Jul 2022 #23
Bill Clinton said every boy brought up in the south knew the story of Sherman's march to the sea Walleye Jul 2022 #25
Very true. billh58 Jul 2022 #31
It took them 160 years but they got that flag in there Walleye Jul 2022 #36
We would be better off, if they disconnected from the matrix RANDYWILDMAN Jul 2022 #12
Let them go. Strip every dime of federal funding Immediately. onecaliberal Jul 2022 #13
Tired of supporting them. Go already. JenniferJuniper Jul 2022 #14
The GOP wants total control over blue states, but still expects blue states to fund them. Irish_Dem Jul 2022 #15
Because they got screwed at Appomattox. no_hypocrisy Jul 2022 #16
Those fools don't understand what that means Farmer-Rick Jul 2022 #17
Delusional. Nt jaysunb Jul 2022 #18
Yeah because the last time they tried that it worked out so well... Wounded Bear Jul 2022 #19
How about we give them a travel allowance and a ticket to Russia or Hungary? Nevilledog Jul 2022 #22
Is there as "Go Fund Me" to help them do it? nevergiveup Jul 2022 #24
Build your own wall. Pay your share of the national debt on the way out. keithbvadu2 Jul 2022 #26
They are clueless. spanone Jul 2022 #27
They can leave. Kid Berwyn Jul 2022 #28
Do they realize if they secede they aren't getting their SS and Medicare benefits? DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2022 #29
Would that actually be true? If an SS recipient moves to another country and becomes a citizen there JHB Jul 2022 #42
That's different than living in a state that seceded which is illegal. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2022 #51
Let them go and good riddance. n/t totodeinhere Jul 2022 #32
And a money-making opportunity opens up for Boris Johnson just in time! muriel_volestrangler Jul 2022 #33
They should buy Greenland w Trump's money and move there. emulatorloo Jul 2022 #34
Ignorance is bliss. BlueIdaho Jul 2022 #35
what happened to their wartime patriotism? treestar Jul 2022 #37
And we in the blue states would really like to see you leave! PortTack Jul 2022 #38
Then They'd Be Wrong ProfessorGAC Jul 2022 #40
TX and FL would also be hit with departure of military bases and other federal facilities JHB Jul 2022 #43
Agreed, But Different Form Of Dependency ProfessorGAC Jul 2022 #49
Clueless as always. Boomerproud Jul 2022 #41
But how could they leech off the blue states if they secede? Sky Jewels Jul 2022 #44
I think their states would be better off if they filled their pockets with rocks and walked into a FSogol Jul 2022 #45
Go Marthe48 Jul 2022 #46
They call themselves patriots and want to secede from the nation tishaLA Jul 2022 #47
Good riddance durablend Jul 2022 #48
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