By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--January 24, 2017
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More Californians are now hoping their state secedes from the United States, a new poll shows. About 32 percent of Californians want to create their own country, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, including many Democrats who are frustrated with the election of President Trump. Pollsters surveyed 500 Californians between Dec. 6 and Jan. 19. Nationally, 22 percent of respondents favor secession, they found.
The movement — dubbed “Calexit” — began after Trump won the 2016 presidential election. A group of liberal Californians formed the Yes California Independence campaign with the hopes of getting a secession initiative on the state’s 2018 ballot.32% might not seem like much, but that's a substantial number. It's also an impressive uptick, considering secession was only polling at 20% in 2014. So take heart, California. We know your exit seems like (and probably is) a pipe dream. However, if you knuckle down and work hard, it's not impossible for you to become your own nation - albeit one that will start life with an astronomical budget deficit and immediately drive into the fiscal ditch thanks to your out-of-control social programs. Make it happen but, please, leave Napa and Sonoma when you go.
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