Data comes from @BrightLineWatch's latest and there's a ton of other good stuff in there, as usual http://brightlinewatch.org/still-miles-apart-americans-and-the-state-of-u-s-democracy-half-a-year-into-the-biden-presidency/ …
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Most disturbing datapoint I've seen in awhile: two-thirds of Southern Republicans now say the South should break away from the Union, up from 50 percent in January. https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/two-thirds-of-southern-republicans …pic.twitter.com/OWx23L9pLc
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They caution that most of the people favoring secession are probably doing so for partisan signaling reasons, eg "I'm a proud Southerner and I hate Joe Biden!", and would likely balk at the idea if it were truly on the table in a concrete sense
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Still, part of the reason support for secession is so high in the GOP is that party elites all over the country are irresponsibly ginning up passions on it.pic.twitter.com/NTLaiuFCZU
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Anyway, more here! If you like what you see I invite you to subscribe to The Why Axis, chronicling the breakdown of American society in visual form since 2021https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/two-thirds-of-southern-republicans …
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Sincerest apologies to Midwesterners triggered by the term "Heartland," it's what the researchers used but in the spirit of reconciliation I offer this alternativepic.twitter.com/GQgmVruk4v
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Not seeing the downside.
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Nope, not at all.
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Here's the thing: The US probably *should* be broken up. Not a Civil *war*, but let's have a Civil Separation.
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Conscious uncoupling?
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Ask for the % that say they would be willing to fight or have their sons or daughters die and it will go way down. Though I do think that giving states and sub-regions the power to secede peacefully would be a win for the U.S. and a way for us to renegotiate our power structures.
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I don’t imagine that they’d be willing to secede without taking some nukes with them, so such a settlement would give us a new angry, aggrieved nuclear neighbor
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