A Graphic Showing Secession Petition Signatures
Here’s the briefing:
Since Nov. 7, when a Louisiana suburbanite first asked the White House to let the Pelican State secede from the Union, Americans have watched with a mixture of curiosity and horror as more and more signatures have appeared on what are now more than 70 petitions from like-minded secessionists.
The Daily Caller reported Tuesday that 675,000 signatures had found their way to petitions on the Obama administration’s “We the People” Web page, but that number continue to grow, odometer-like, with each passing hour. (RELATED: White House “secede” petitions reach 675,000 signatures, 50-state participation)
And now a South Carolina programmer has collected all the data in one easy-to-read place.
And, here’s that place. The map is updated every few minutes. Kudos to this blog site.
Texas residents are the most blue (numerically high) in seeking secession.
Sadly but not unexpectedly, Vermont is dead last. The whitest on the map.
Everybody in Vermont just loves a big, huge, omnipresent and omnipotent God government. Everyone except me and a few brave others who visit here.
Update: As a commenter, er, commented, Vermont has a higher percentage (of signatures per total population) than some other states. I’m guessing, though, that those who want to secede do so because they think the United States is too conservative. They want more nanny-statism and government regulation than is currently possible in a nation that still has a few neo-cons running around.
6 Responses to “A Graphic Showing Secession Petition Signatures”
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on 15 Nov 2012 at 11:04 pm # Craig
You know your state much better than I, but you should look at the percentage rather than the raw number. In that regard Vermont is two times higher than mine, Minnesota.
on 16 Nov 2012 at 5:53 am # MichigammeDave
So some of the secessionists want more government, some less, and they’re all pretty much disgruntled?
Maybe the solution is sort of a republic, where the individual states more or less govern themselves according to their individual circumstances, and the central, or federal, government acts as sort of coordinator, regulating only those things which move among the several states. Oh, and providing border security. That one could become important in the coming days.
Just blue-skying here, but it seems like a win-win to me.
on 16 Nov 2012 at 9:40 am # comatus
Dave:
Crazy talk.
on 16 Nov 2012 at 1:40 pm # Cargosquid
Who in the hell ASKS the GOVERNMENT if its ok to leave? Sounds silly to me.
Maybe they should have all gotten to the polls and voted said problem out.
on 16 Nov 2012 at 3:25 pm # Billll
We’re doing this wrong. Instead of individually asking to secede, we should be jointly demanding that D.C. be declared a separate country.
on 16 Nov 2012 at 3:39 pm # Matthew Carberry
An article I read pointed out that anyone can sign any petition. Before labeling a particular state as having more or less support it would be necessary to control for signatures for secession from that state’s resident’s alone.
Another interesting thing to check would be if, as seems likely, many of the signatures are actually the same people signing every secession petition up there, not just the ones for their own state.
“You typed secession twice.”
“I like secession.”