36% of Texans want to secede from USA

36% of Texans want to secede from USA Leftist media laments popular support for self-determination Recently, it was reported that according to mainstream polling data a quarter of people in the United States support secessionfrom the Union. Every region has strong support that tends to cut across demographic divides. However, the strongest support for leaving the USA comes from the Southern and Western States. The Dallas Morning News, a Left-leaning newspaper owned by US media empire A H Belo Corporation, published an article by liberal activist Nicole Stockdale (who strongly supports amnesty for illegal immigrants) in which it is lamented that over a third of the people of Texas support secession. Stockdale notes that her paper has previously condemned the secessionist views of millions of Texans as ‘hard to take seriously.’ Now, however, with support for secession on the rise, the Leftist writer says ‘I won’t be so quick to dismiss supporters.’ Secession & the USA Winner-Take-All System It is interesting to consider that if the USA had a proportional system of representation, secessionists could hold the balance of power in Texas and other Southern and Western States. In such a system which allowed for greater representation it is possible that a pro-secession party in the Lone Star State might emerge as the largest force. The largest parties in Scotland,Catalonia (northeastern Spain), Flanders (northern Belgium) and northern Italy are secessionist parties. However, the USA has a winner-take-all system which discourages small parties and essentially forces 310 million people to choose between two parties which hold very similar positions on key issues such as war, inflation, immigration and secession. When it comes to choice at the ballot box and the ability to effect real political change, the ‘land of the free’ is not nearly as free as many other countries throughout the Western world.