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Weeks ago the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene She used her social network Twitter to request a “national divorce” so that states like Florida do not become, according to her, a disaster like California.
“We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this,” Taylor wrote.
Although the message of Greene provoked rejection from several colleagueson their side are at least a fifth of US citizens.
A new survey by Ipsos revealed that Republicans are more interested in dividing the country than Democrats. According to the percentages, a quarter of Republican voters want to break away and form a right-wing nation, while the percentage for Democrats is only 16%.
In this survey it also emerged that support for the split was higher among menpeople who earn $50,000 less each year and those who live in the South and West of the country.
According to Axios, support for dividing America was strongest among Americans whose main news source is Fox News or other conservative media, 32%, and higher among Republicans at 25% than among independents or Democrats.
According to the aforementioned medium, the last time the states separated due to an ideology was in the American Civil War in 1861, resulting in the deaths of 500 people per day.
The survey also found that people who they had not shared a meal in the last year with someone from a political party differently were more likely to support a national divorce than those who had.
Only 12% of respondents mentioned that were most likely to move to a state seeking independence, and 47% he noted that he would probably leave a state that tried to secede.
“The deep political failings of Americans are clear and they are ingrained in our psyche and our politics,” and talk of divorce or national secession “leaves us with a divided nation with little hope of reconciliation,” said Cliff Young, president of US Public Affairs for Ipsos.
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