The Issue With “A National Divorce”

For the past couple of years, a concept of a “national divorce,” or a form of secession in which the United States as we know it is split into multiple nations, has come back into the public discourse. Back in March, a poll found that around sixty six million Americans supported the idea after it was mentioned by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. After Barack Obama won re-election in 2012, petitions started appearing in all fifty states from critics of the President to get their state to leave the nation. This is not to say that calls for secession have been exclusively right-wing,
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