New Bright Line Watch poll: majority of Southern Republicans support secession

Most disturbing datapoint I've seen in awhile: two-thirds of Southern Republicans now say the South should break away from the Union, up from 50 percent in January. https://t.co/IALe5x7HzF pic.twitter.com/OWx23L9pLc

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) July 14, 2021

New @BrightLineWatch on state of US democracy https://t.co/iBaHz60WwY
-Experts: Overturning pop. vote key risk; legal changes to enable are grave/serious threats
-Public: Secession support ↑ in partisan strongholds but info on official AZ recount ↑ R trust more than "audit"
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— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) July 14, 2021

Since various versions of this are starting to make rounds, let me express some caution toward the alarm over the numbers in the South. 1) Lots of reasons for saying yes to this question, rather than literal secession including general affect or just differences in ideology. 2/ https://t.co/Z8xZl7wbZC

— Ryan D. Enos (@RyanDEnos) July 14, 2021

Back to this are we?

For people saying "Bye Rednecks" remember, now as before, the problem isn't that white people want to leave, it's that they want to set up a white ethnostate OVER THE OBJECTION of the Black people who ALSO live there. https://t.co/bi4gpYoC5o

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) July 14, 2021