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One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll (nationalpost.com)

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One in five Americans (20 per cent) polled by Leger this week say they would like their state to join Canada, more than double the proportion of Canadians who said they would like their country to become the 51st state of the United States. Article content

“Only 9 per cent of Canadians believe it is likely that Canada will become the 51st U.S. state. By contrast, 20 per cent of Americans would like their state to join Canada and become a Canadian province, a proportion that is higher among respondents aged 18 to 34 (30 per cent),” reads the new Léger report.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Would you mind sharing those polls? I haven't seen any that high

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://archive.is/UEsWZ

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-join-u-s-poll-1.7434317

https://leger360.com/canada-51st-state/

EDIT: I can't find the one that said 20%. It was on a Lemmy post a few weeks back. However, it said 80% were strongly opposed, and didn't break down the other responses. The article just assumed the other responses weren't opposed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you for the links! There's definitely some variability in how the questions are asked, and obviously polling bias (though those could go either way), but this is still way higher than any of the polls I had seen. I appreciate you taking the time to find them for me.