North Carolina · Self-Determination
On a fair ballot, North Carolina is within reach of a majority.
There is no organized movement for it in North Carolina yet. That is exactly what we are here to change.
North Carolinaadults in North Carolina would back independence when the question is asked the way a ballot asks it: calm, binary, and peaceful. That's about 47% of the state.
Even the understated abstract poll counts 1.4 million (17%). How we get this number →
North Carolina, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$839 billion, ahead of Taiwan.
people
More than the whole of Portugal. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 519 are chosen by people who don't live here.
in sweet potatoes
About sixty percent of America's sweet potatoes, and first in tobacco.
North Carolina standoutThe only question that matters
North Carolina is already a nation in all but name.
If North Carolina 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
North Carolina was governing itself before the country existed. The Mecklenburg resolves, the men who signed away British authority county by county, the flat coast and the high mountains that never asked permission to be different from each other. So it should not surprise anyone that on a fair, ballot-worded question, put calmly and peacefully, about 47% of North Carolina would vote to leave the union. That is roughly 3.9 million adults, close to half the state.
Here is why 47% is the real figure and 17% is not. A poll asks you to imagine something in the abstract. A ballot asks a plain yes or no, peaceful and binding, the way an actual vote is put. That difference is worth about 30 points. Run the honest question and North Carolina sits at or near a majority. Not a fringe. Almost the whole neighborhood.
North Carolina went red in 2020, and none of this is about that. Self-determination is not a red idea or a blue one. It is the oldest idea the state has. What is missing here is not the will and not the numbers. What is missing is each other. We bring the playbook and the connections. We do not run your group and we do not take your money. You decide what North Carolina's movement looks like, and you build it.
Cast your vote
Count Me In, North Carolina
Be findable. When the next person from North Carolina reaches out, we connect you. That is how it starts.
We don't run your group. We don't take your money. We bring the playbook, the standard, and the connections. What you build is yours.
← The whole map