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USA Today: Not really American, and proud of it

ICI March 28, 2024

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.

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  • California Independence
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Ventura County Star: The ‘Calexit’ sentiment might be rising

ICI March 21, 2024

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.

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  • California Independence
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Newsweek: Most Californians Believe They’d Be Happier if State Seceded

ICI February 27, 2024

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.

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Press Release: 58% of Californians say they’d be better off if California peacefully seceded

C.C. Marin February 26, 2024

Carlsbad, CA: Do Californians long to change their relationship with the U.S., but don’t know how to ask for it? According to a new poll, the answer is yes.

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Connecting California: Gavin Newsom’s ‘Campaign for Democracy’ Has a Democracy Problem

ICI April 25, 2023

Data on “democracy deserts” provided by C.C. Marin of the Independent California Institute show that more than 22.1% of voting-age adults in Los Angeles can’t vote. A quarter of voters in cities as different as Cupertino, Anaheim, and my mom’s hometown of Hawthorne are disenfranchised.

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Press Release: California Independence Movement to hold itself to a higher standard

ICI January 28, 2021

Carlsbad, CA: Independent California Institute, a 501(c)(3) think tank that studies California independence, today issued a set of basic standards (see https://ic.institute/cio-standards) that they invite all self-identified California independence (or “Calexit”) organizations to abide by.

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LA Weekly: Backers of California Secession Say State’s Senate Representation Is Dire

ICI July 25, 2017

Smaller states overrepresented in Congress tend to lean conservative and Republican and, as big blue states like California grow, the power of smaller counterparts actually increases “LA Weekly: Backers of California Secession Say State’s Senate Representation Is Dire”

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