Author: ICI

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.

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.

While many reject the idea of state secession as a fantasy of just a few, a new survey revealed that a majority of Californians feel they’d be happier if their state was no longer part of the United States.