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To: TheZMan
12% said "very likely" but I think the 'money quote' is that almost 1/3 of the adult population think it's somewhat likely.

About one third, coincidentally, supported the first independence movement according to most estimates. The more things change ...

39 posted on 06/25/2010 1:42:18 PM PDT by LTCJ (The Constitution; first, last, always.)
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To: LTCJ
About one third, coincidentally, supported the first independence movement according to most estimates. The more things change ...

I suspect no more than 1/3 of Southerners supported the slaveowners' rebellion in 1861, that 1/3 consisting largely of the plantation elite, the gullible, the perpetually ignorant and the ultra-provincial who thought Yankees were of a different nation.

48 posted on 06/25/2010 1:48:48 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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