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Poll fact sheet: YOU ARE NOT ALONE
A very simple fact sheet with highlights from the January 2025 Independent California Poll. Perfect for printing and distributing at rallies, farmer’s markets, and other “Poll fact sheet: YOU ARE NOT ALONE”
Press Release: On Eve of Trump Inauguration, Californians Eye Secession
Carlsbad, CA: 61% of Californians said they would be better off California if peacefully seceded from the U.S. at some point in the next ten years, in a poll conducted in the weeks before Inauguration Day. This is the highest favorability towards secession ever recorded in a California poll.
Poll: As Trump Is Inaugurated, Californians Seek Independence
Highlights: 61% of Californians polled say California would be better off if it peacefully seceded. 77% say California should control its state borders “more like a country”. 63% support using hardball tactics in the U.S. House to gain autonomy. Californians now feel more Californian than American overall.
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Take a sneak peak at TIC Poll #2!
Update: the poll is in the field now, and we hope to have results soon. Thank you for your feedback!
Democracy Local: How to Achieve Local Autonomy
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?
Data release: the Independent California Poll
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”
Newsweek: US ‘Breaking Apart’ With 25 States ‘Ready’ to Leave: Texas Secessionist
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.
Who are the Californians who want independence?
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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USA Today: Not really American, and proud of it
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.