New York · There is a history here
On a fair ballot, a majority of New York votes to leave the union.
New York has done this before. The movement here is dormant, not dead.
New Yorkadults in New York would back independence when the question is asked the way a ballot asks it: calm, binary, and peaceful. That's about 58% of the state.
Even the understated abstract poll counts 4.3 million (28%). How we get this number →
Organized here before
This is not new ground.
New York has raised an organized independence movement before, in the recent past. It went quiet, which is not the same as gone. Most movements sit quiet for years, right up until they don't. The people who believed it then are still here, and it takes a handful of them to make it a movement again.
New York, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$2.3 trillion, ahead of Canada.
people
More than the whole of Netherlands. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 507 are chosen by people who don't live here.
of output per person
On par with Switzerland, richer per head than any G7 nation.
New York standoutThe only question that matters
New York is already a nation in all but name.
If New York were already a self-governing nation, with its own border, its own money, its own defense, everything two hundred other nations control, and the vote in front of you was not whether to leave, but whether to join the United States on the terms it offers today, would you vote yes?
Cast your vote
New York wrote its own constitution in 1777, before there was a union to belong to. It ratified the federal compact as a sovereign state and reserved the right to reconsider it. On a fair, ballot-worded question, put calmly and peacefully as a real vote would be, about 58 percent of New York would choose to leave the union. That is roughly 8.9 million adults deciding they would rather govern themselves.
That 58 percent is the honest number, not the low one. A ballot is binary and peaceful: yes or no, no drama, no threat. Asked that way, support runs about 30 points over the cold, abstract poll, which is why even the understated floor of 28 percent climbs to a clear majority once the question looks like a real decision. New York carried Democratic in 2020, and it still lands here, because deciding who governs you is not a red question or a blue one.
Cast your vote
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Add your name, and be one of the people who brings New York's movement back.
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