Washington · There is a history here
On a fair ballot, a majority of Washington votes to leave the union.
Washington has done this before. The movement here is dormant, not dead.
Washingtonadults in Washington would back independence when the question is asked the way a ballot asks it: calm, binary, and peaceful. That's about 54% of the state.
Even the understated abstract poll counts 1.5 million (24%). How we get this number →
Organized here before
This is not new ground.
Washington 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.
Washington, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$855 billion, ahead of Belgium.
people
More than the whole of Laos. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 523 are chosen by people who don't live here.
of output per person
Ahead of Norway per person, home of Microsoft and Amazon.
Washington standoutThe only question that matters
Washington is already a nation in all but name.
If Washington 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?
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Washington was its own experiment long before it was a state, a far northwest corner that built its own ports, ran its own ferries, and settled its own frontier without waiting on permission from a capital across the continent. That habit never left. On a fair, calmly worded ballot question, about 54 percent of Washington would vote to leave the union. That is roughly 3.3 million adults.
The abstract poll and the ballot are two different things. The poll asks a cold hypothetical; a real ballot is binary and peaceful, the choice put plainly, stay or go. When the question is framed the way a vote is actually cast, support runs about 30 points higher than the abstract number. That is what lifts Washington to a majority. Even the understated floor, YouGov's 24 percent, is already about 1.5 million people.
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