Civil War Never Seemed Closer With These Stats

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Civil War Never Seemed Closer With These Stats

A whopping two-thirds of Republicans in the South favor seceding from the United States and nearly half of Democrats in the Pacific region and almost 40 percent in the Northeast agree, according to a new survey.

Support for secession is also considerable among independents in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions, where 43 percent say they would favor breaking away and forming their own country.

Half of independents in the South also favor secession and 43 percent of Republicans in the Rocky Mountain states share that same view.

The survey, which was conducted by Bright Line Watch, polled 2,750 respondents. The figures were published in the June 2021 edition of the Bright Line Watch Survey Wave 15 Dataset.

Overall, support for secession was highest in the South, where 44 percent are in favor of breaking away from the Union.

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In the Northeast, about one in three (34 percent) favored secession. Nearly the same percentage of respondents - 32 percent - in the Mountain region favored secession.

Thirty percent of those surveyed from the Heartland also backed the idea, while 39 percent of those in the Pacific states said they, too, supported it.

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The survey from June found that there was an increase across the board in the number of Americans who supported the idea of secession.

In January, just after President Joe Biden was sworn in, Bright Line Watch conducted a similar survey asking the same question.

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It found that fewer Americans in each of the five designated regions supported secession.

In the Northeast, 32 percent of voters said they supported seceding from the US. In the South, it was just 33 percent - with half of Republicans backing the idea.

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In the Heartland, less than one in four supported seceding while 28 percent of those in the Mountain region said the same.

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In the Pacific, just one in three Americans backed the idea of secession.

If these regions did decide to theoretically secede, it would create five separate entities divided up by geographic closeness.

The findings reflect just how politically polarized the country is - a trend that began in the 1990s and accelerated in recent years.

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Though Biden took office vowing to heal the nation’s divisions, surveys appear to show the country as divided as ever.

In the last year, Republican lawmakers in Texas, Wyoming, Florida, Mississippi, and Michigan have raised the possibility of seceding from the Union.

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When Trump was president, a survey of Democrat-leaning California found that 44 percent of those in the Golden State supported secession.

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The last time a group of states tried to secede from the Union was more than 150 years ago - an event that triggered the American Civil War.

The issues leading up to the Civil War were complex, and many people in the North and South in 1861 viewed the conflict as inevitable.

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