And I will stick with the observations I have made from actually traveling there and speaking with the locals.
To each their own, I suppose.
My polls and your stroll are not really opposing, actually. What you say cannot disprove a poll, and a poll would not disprove your neighborhood. If the poll is correct and 56 percent of people oppose annexation, then that means maybe 40 or more percent support it. That is a lot of flags, maybe, and a lot of locals for you to interrogate, and that is pretty close. But you do not prove your majority just by saying you came and saw all this. You can only prove it through an actual legal vote, without which you have no way to confidently claim anything.
That is why Nixon lost in 1972.
Pauline Kael of the New Yorker "I only know one person who voted for Nixon."