According to the latest YouGov poll, Alaskans are the most interested citizens in America who would favor their state seceding from the United States.
Some 36% of Alaska residents would support the state divorcing the United States and becoming a fully independent nation. The average among all the states was 23%, which is a number that would be a bit lower if Alaska’s high percentage was removed from the average. Alaska is clearly an outlier in this poll.
YouGov surveyed 35,307 U.S. adults between February 2 and 5. The question was whether respondents would “support your state seceding from the U.S.”
Must Read Alaska is running a similar survey in its Monday newsletter, which can be found at this link. The survey is toward the bottom of the newsletter.
Following Alaska, the states with the highest percentage supporting their state’s secession were Texas at 31%, California at 29%, and New York and Oklahoma at 28%
On the lower end of the scale 13% of Minnesota respondents supported secession, and Ohio, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island were just above Minnesota at 14%.
About one-third of those polled (31%) told the pollster that states have a right to secede from the country, while 43% of respondents said there is no such right.
The respondents were split by party: Republicans and Independents were more closely divided on this question, while most Democrats reject the right to secession: 22% said there is such a right and 55% said there is not, YouGov reported.
Also, half of Democrats (49%) said they think of people who want their state to secede from the U.S. as “mostly traitors,” compared to 26% of Republicans who think that.
Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel using sample matching. A random sample (stratified by gender, age, race, education, geographic region, and voter registration) was selected from the 2019 American Community Survey. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, 2020 election turnout and presidential vote, baseline party identification, and current voter registration status. Demographic weighting targets came from the 2019 American Community Survey. Baseline party identification was weighted to the estimated distribution of last June, (34% Democratic, 31% Republican). The margin of error for the overall sample is approximately 3%, YouGov reported.
