In Politically Polarized U.S., State Secession Talk Gains Steam
27th July 2016
In the run up to almost every presidential election, partisans on both sides of the political spectrum threaten to move to a country like Canada or Ireland if the other side wins. But this election is different.
If all the people who said they’d move to Canada if X got elected would just DO IT, we wouldn’t have these problems.
“There’s far less trust in the federal government and major institutions than there was 50 or 60 years ago,” says Jason Sorens, author of Secessionism and a lecturer in government at Dartmouth College. “A lot of people don’t feel represented in D.C. and they’re definitely open to radical solutions like secession because they feel as if that’s a way to get control back over their political destiny.”
That’s because statist trends in government are worse then they’ve been at any time since President Wilson.