West Virginia · Self-Determination
Put it plainly and a majority of West Virginia votes to leave.
A majority of West Virginia is already there. What is missing is a movement, and that is what we are here to build with you.
West Virginiaadults in West Virginia would back independence when the question is asked the way a ballot asks it: calm, binary, and peaceful. That's about 55% of the state.
Even the understated abstract poll counts 356,000 (25%). How we get this number →
West Virginia, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$108 billion, ahead of Angola.
people
More than the whole of Estonia. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 531 are chosen by people who don't live here.
coal producer in America
Second only to Wyoming, about a seventh of the nation's coal.
West Virginia standoutThe only question that matters
West Virginia is already a nation in all but name.
If West Virginia 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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West Virginia was carved out of Virginia in 1863 by people who refused to be governed by a capital that no longer represented them. That instinct never left. Put a fair, plainly worded question on the ballot, calm and binary and peaceful, and about 55 percent of West Virginia votes to leave the union. That is roughly 782,000 adults.
The reason 55 percent is the real number and not the 25 the abstract poll reports: a ballot is a yes or no decision made in private, and it strips out the fear that a phone survey builds in. Across many places, support measured that way runs about 30 points over the abstract question. Apply that to West Virginia and you land at a majority. The 25 percent is the understated floor, not the ceiling.
So the number is already here. What is missing is each other. There is no organized independence movement in West Virginia yet, and that is the only thing standing between a majority on paper and a majority that acts. We bring the playbook and the connections. We do not run your group and we do not take your money. You build what West Virginia's movement looks like.
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Count Me In, West Virginia
Be findable. When the next person from West Virginia 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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