How Would Your State Vote on Secession?

[Mordecai]

I don't think a referendum for secession would succeed, but it would certainly have a fighting chance.

[nolesfan2011]

Georgia: 73% No 27% Yes, Yes wins a few rural counties in South and far North GA, No by large margins in all the urban areas.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Without a major US calamity, MN would vote strongly against secession.  MN joined the Union for the purpose of helping keep it together.

In a bad scenario I could see a regional break off or some kind of cooperative annexation with Canada... But that's a very unlikely case.

[Citizen Hats]

it does make perfect sense, though, that the West would be in more favor than the east.

For one, Western states are larger.  You can drive an awful long time in the west before you hit another state. Secondly, they're drawn in such away that they tend to envelope built up areas rather than divide them.  In the East, the metropolitan areas of New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Cincinnati,  St. Louis, Kansas City all sit on state frontiers. By contrast, in the West there are only a handful of major cities which span states- Portland and El Paso are about all that I can think of.  Western States tend to be much more comprehensive units. As such, a place like California or Arizona kinda make some amount of sense as an independent jurisdiction.  A place like New Jersey, basically a double-ended suburb, does not