over black friday weekend we're offering NUMBER_TOKEN off everything in the tldr store from our cute countries with shoes pins including the us pin badge to stickers and even our book brexit the colouring book get our biggest discounts of the year using code black friday hello and welcome to another tldr explains video in this one we're going to be looking at the prospect of american succession what it means and why it's become more popular and whether it could even actually happen so we're doing this video because the idea that america should split up in some form or another has started gaining traction in some corners of the media various media outlets have floated the idea and there were even two books written on the subject in NUMBER_TOKEN one by left winger richard kreitner and won by right winger f h buckley so what's got the media into the idea of american secession well it's probably because the public are so into american secession in the aftermath of two of the most polarizing elections in american history more and more americans are flirting with the idea of secession polling from uva center for politics found that an astounding NUMBER_TOKEN percent of trump voters and NUMBER_TOKEN of biden voters would favor states seceding from the union to become their own separate country that's a scarily high number but before you get too stressed out or taking the notion of american succession too seriously note that the question is ambiguous it could mean one of two things it could either refer to the idea of a state say hawaii leaving the u.s and becoming its own mini country or it could be referring to the idea of the u.s splitting up into two similar-sized countries presumably one composed of democrat blue states and one composed of republican red states these are two very different ideas and we're going to address both in this video let's start with the idea of a single state leaving the us legally this would probably require a constitutional amendment with the support of two-thirds of the u.s house and senate as well as NUMBER_TOKEN state legislatures this is well pretty much impossible but there are nonetheless some state-specific succession movements most notably in california and texas yes california or collects it is a movement that supports the idea that california should leave america and form its own government and to be fair california has the resources to go it alone california just by itself is the fifth largest economy in the world in terms of nominal gdp ahead of great britain france and even india it has a high gdp per capita of about sixty five thousand one hundred and sixty dollars according to NUMBER_TOKEN estimates which puts it ahead of the us average of about sixty three thousand dollars its major cities such as san francisco and los angeles are globally recognized and california is home of major tech companies such as apple google and facebook so what do the residents of california think well support for calexit reached an all-time high of NUMBER_TOKEN percent in NUMBER_TOKEN after the inauguration of donald trump who isn't the most popular politician in the golden state but according to the latest polling from NUMBER_TOKEN it's since fallen to just NUMBER_TOKEN support with NUMBER_TOKEN percent opposing texas is sort of california's
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