Some people may think this Rasmussen Poll (conducted on September 23rd and 24th of 1,000 nationwide adults, with a 3 point margin of error) is not a serious survey -- since the overwhelming majority of Americans neither want nor believe it is legal for states to break up or states to secede from the Union (an issue that was settled by the Civil War). I disagree.I think the fact that approximately 1 out of every 5 Americans thinks they have the right to either form a new state or form a new country makes a rather sad commentary on the state of politics in this country. These people remind me of a child, who when not allowed to be the quarterback in a neighborhood game, will take his/her ball and go home. They are bad sports, who care far more about themselves than they do for our country.
Whatever happened to debate and compromise? Democracy is a messy form of government, and sometimes we must accept that we don't get all (or maybe even any) of what we want. But it is just wrong to tear a state, or the country, apart just because you lost a political fight. The proper thing to do in a democracy is to work harder to get more elected officials who agree with your views -- and if that is not possible, maybe you should reconsider those views and consider why most voters oppose them.
