South Dakota · Self-Determination
South Dakota lets its people make the law. Self-rule is that instinct.
There is no organized movement for it in South Dakota yet. That is exactly what we are here to change.
South DakotaNot measured
South Dakota had too small a sample in the 2024 poll to publish a number. The case for self-determination doesn't hinge on it.
South Dakota, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$75 billion, ahead of DR Congo.
people
More than the whole of Comoros. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 532 are chosen by people who don't live here.
The only question that matters
South Dakota is already a nation in all but name.
If South Dakota 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
South Dakota was the first state in the country to put lawmaking in the hands of its own voters. In 1898 it wrote citizen initiative and referendum into its constitution, so the people could pass a law or repeal one by direct vote. A state built on the idea that the people at home decide is not a hard place to imagine deciding the biggest question of all. YouGov could not draw a clean read here, but the instinct is native ground.
Here is why the adjusted number is the honest one. The abstract poll asks a vague, loaded question and people flinch. A ballot does not. A ballot is one quiet choice, yes or no, made in private and settled peacefully. When the question becomes that simple, support climbs by roughly thirty points over the raw poll. Apply that to a state that already governs itself by direct vote and South Dakota sits at or near a majority. The quiet is a thin sample, not a verdict.
What is missing in South Dakota is not the will. It is each other. Nobody has stood the movement up here yet, so the people who feel it have no way to find one another. We bring the playbook and the connections that link you up. We do not run your group and we do not take your money. You decide what South Dakota's movement looks like, and you build it.
Cast your vote
Count Me In, South Dakota
Be findable. When the next person from South Dakota 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.
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