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