I have been hearing and reading a lot about Scotland’s vote to secede from the United Kingdom that failed to pass today and I found an article about a poll asking citizens about secession in the United States. The results showed that almost a quarter of the Americans who voted would support their state’s secession from the United States. I feel that some of the support to secede could be influenced by the Scottish movement to do so, but personally I would vote against it. Some disgruntled citizens cite the government’s failure to act and policies like Obamacare as their reasoning, while others in Texas simply claim that “we don’t need them.” I don’t think secession is this country’s near future, but it’s interesting to wonder if any of our states could break off and completely sustain itself someday.