Fully 68% of Californians believe that California would be better off if California negotiated a special autonomous status within the U.S., according to a poll that my think tank, the Independent California Institute, commissioned from YouGov earlier this year…. Why might Californians want more independence from the federal government?
As promised, here is all the raw data behind the Independent California Poll. If you use this data, please give us and the pollster credit, “Data release: the Independent California Poll”
Former President Donald Trump caused a furor by publicly speculating about the current Vice President’s ethnicity. Is Kamala Harris Black or South Asian and when “The California-ness of Kamala Harris”
Recently Governor Gavin Newsom gave a recorded State of the State speech in which he forcibly blasted chronic right wing California bashing as “delusional” and stated that “the California way of life is under attack.”
Richard Kreitner, author of the book Break It Up, gave ICI a shout-out in his recent newsletter:
A more insightful survey was conducted (also by YouGov) for the Independent California Institute, whose director, Coyote Marin, reached out to me after reading Break It Up. What I like about the ICI is…
Carlsbad, CA: If Californians want more independence from the U.S., what should they do to get it? Newly released crosstabs point to one obvious answer: organize within the California Democratic Party.
Miller argued that in the survey, support for independence was lower than it should be because “polling companies have no idea how to poll the issue of secession or withdrawing from the union.”
To support this argument, Miller referenced a separate YouGov survey conducted in February for the Independent California Institute.
If you wanted to organize a mass movement around greater independence for California, who should you organize? Demographic data from our poll shows some surprising answers.
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Is it any wonder that a majority of our not-really American state is ready to leave before the Americans kick us out? According to an Independent California Institute poll, 58% of California adults say we’d be better off than we are now if California peacefully became independent — its own country — in the next decade.
68% of Californians believe they would be better off than they are now if the state negotiated for itself a “special autonomous status within the U.S.” and arranged for transfer of almost all federal land and water infrastructure here to state and local governments. More than a supermajority, then, want at least special standing.
