03-03-2021
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America is extremely divided politically right now, causing some to wonder if the country could literally break apart into different sections.
One survey found that more people actually support that idea with 29 percent saying they encourage the concept of dissolving the country into like-minded regions.
According to a poll from the political science research project, Bright Line Watch, researchers wrote, secession is a genuinely radical proposition. Until recently, we would have regarded it as too marginal to include in a survey, the researchers said. But state legislators in Mississippi and Texas and state GOP leaders in Texas and Wyoming have openly advocated secession in recent months.
Two surveys by the Dartmouth professor-founded Bright Line Watch indicate that the public is split along party lines in their views of the 2020 election’s legitimacy, among other topics.
On the eve of the November 3 election, Bright Line Watch–the political science research project of faculty at the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, and Dartmouth College–finds that experts are concerned about substantial risks to the legitimacy of the election, including potential problems… Read More ›