I know that the surveyors probably anticipate and account for this, but I always believe these surveys show the average American answers stuff randomly. I don't think the average person really understands what secession would entail nor would they want to try to achieve it.
And this isn't something based on evidence I've done, this is more of a goosebumps feeling I get: I really think most Americans who promote secession want a white ethnostate and that's what they think secession means. That's definitely what most Texan secessionists I've met want. They think an independent Texas would immediately become entirely white. What it would actually become is a Saudi Arabian vassal state since the KSA would want to keep all their refineries, ports, and shipping lanes along the gulf coast
the only Americans I believe when it comes to secession are indigenous people. I don't trust crackers for a second unless it's one of you people trying to balkanize the great satan
I very much agree with all that. I think another part of it is that a lot of people buy into the whole myth of rugged individualism that Americans are brought up into, and have deep mistrust for having a central government. As material conditions continue to decline, people are increasingly blaming the federal government for all their problems. They don't understand how a modern economy works, they don't know where the goods they consume come from. The have this romanticized frontier mindset that if their state splits off then they'll just be completely self sufficient.
I know that the surveyors probably anticipate and account for this, but I always believe these surveys show the average American answers stuff randomly. I don't think the average person really understands what secession would entail nor would they want to try to achieve it.
And this isn't something based on evidence I've done, this is more of a goosebumps feeling I get: I really think most Americans who promote secession want a white ethnostate and that's what they think secession means. That's definitely what most Texan secessionists I've met want. They think an independent Texas would immediately become entirely white. What it would actually become is a Saudi Arabian vassal state since the KSA would want to keep all their refineries, ports, and shipping lanes along the gulf coast
the only Americans I believe when it comes to secession are indigenous people. I don't trust crackers for a second unless it's one of you people trying to balkanize the great satan
I very much agree with all that. I think another part of it is that a lot of people buy into the whole myth of rugged individualism that Americans are brought up into, and have deep mistrust for having a central government. As material conditions continue to decline, people are increasingly blaming the federal government for all their problems. They don't understand how a modern economy works, they don't know where the goods they consume come from. The have this romanticized frontier mindset that if their state splits off then they'll just be completely self sufficient.