{"id":30,"date":"2008-07-30T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-07-30T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T13:40:00","slug":"zogby-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Zogby Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw this Zogby<\/a> poll last week and thought it was very interesting. Things are heating up. Things that I thought were far off don’t seem all that far away anymore. Can anyone say "revolution"? Read… <\/font><\/p>\n

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Released: July 23, 2008<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Middlebury Institute\/Zogby Poll:<\/i> One in Five Americans Believe States Have the Right to Secede<\/font><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Survey finds 18% would support a secessionist effort in their state<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

UTICA, New York -One in five American adults – 22% – believe that any state or region has the right to "peaceably secede from the United States and become an independent republic," a new Middlebury Institute\/Zogby International telephone poll shows.<\/font><\/p>\n

I believe any state or region has the right to peaceably secede and become an independent republic:<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Agree – <\/font>22%<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Disagree – <\/font>73%<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Not sure – <\/font>5%<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

The level of support for the right of secession was consistent in every region in the country, though the percentage was slightly higher in the South (26%) and the East (24%).  The figures were also consistent for every age group, but backing was strongest among younger adults, as 40% among those age 18 to 24 and 24% among those age 25 to 34 agreed states and regions have secession rights.<\/font><\/p>\n

Broken down by race, the highest percentage agreeing with the right to secede was among Hispanics (43%) and African-Americans (40%). Among white respondents, 17% said states or regions should have the right to peaceably secede.<\/font><\/p>\n

I would support a secessionist effort in my state:<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Agree – 18%<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Disagree – 72%<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Not sure – 10%<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Politically, liberal thinkers were much more likely to favor the right to secession for states and regions, as 32% of mainline liberals agreed with the concept. Among the very liberal the support was only slightly less enthusiastic – 28% said they favored such a right. Meanwhile, just 17% of mainline conservatives thought it should exist as an option for states or regions of the nation.<\/font><\/p>\n

Asked whether they would support a secessionist movement in their own state, 18% said they would, with those in the South most likely to say they would back such an effort. In the South, 24% said they would support such an effort, while 15% in the West and Midwest said the same. Here, too, younger adults were more likely than older adults to be supportive – 35% of those under age 30 would support secession in their state, compared to just 17% of those over age 65. Among African Americans, 33% said they would support secession, compared to just 15% of white adults. The more education a respondent had, the less likely they were to support secession – as 38% of those with less than a high school diploma would support it, compared to just 10% of those with a college degree.<\/font><\/p>\n

To gauge the extent to which support for secession comes from a sense that the nation’s current system is not working, a separate question was asked about agreement that "the United States’ system is broken and cannot be fixed by traditional two-party politics and elections." Nearly half of respondents agreed with this statement, with 27% who somewhat agree and 18% who strongly agree.<\/font><\/p>\n

I believe the United States’ system is broken and cannot be fixed by traditional two-party politics and elections:<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

Agree – 44%<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Disagree – 53%<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Not sure – 3%<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

The telephone poll, conducted by Zogby International, included 1,209 American adult respondents. It was conducted July 9-13, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +\/- 2.9 per cent.<\/font><\/p>\n

The sponsor of the poll was the Middlebury Institute, a think tank for "the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination," based in Cold Spring, NY. Their web site address is: MiddleburyInstitute.org.<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Most interesting to me is the fact that 44% of people polled feel like the system is broken. 44%?!?!?! Wow! That is nearly half of the sampling. What would happen if that number continued to grow? What would happen if those people were just a little more angry… oh boy. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw this Zogby poll last week and thought it was very interesting. Things are heating up. Things that I thought were far off don’t seem all that far away anymore. Can anyone say "revolution"? Read… Released: July 23, 2008 Middlebury Institute\/Zogby Poll: One in Five Americans Believe States Have the Right to Secede Survey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familyofgoldsteins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}