Recent polls in the United States show significant support for states to secede from the union – along both red and blue lines.

Max Hastings, in an op-ed column for Bloomberg News, wonders, “How can the word ‘secession’ have made it even as far as the margins of political debate?”

Especially, he writes, when “half the developing world is struggling to get to the U.S.”

And yet, polls suggest that the chatter remains consistent, on both sides of the aisle.

And it isn’t simply among the far right or far left of the political parties.

“A lot of extremists support their states seceding from the Union,” a tweet from Bloomberg reads. “Shockingly, so do a lot of non-extremists.”

One of the polls cited by Hastings is a collaborative effort by the UVA Center for Politics and Project Home Fire just this past September.

That survey indicates a majority of Trump voters think the political divide in America is so great that they’d support a move by blue states to secede from the union.

The poll indicates 52 percent of Trump voters lean towards secession as a solution to the political differences currently gripping the country.

Hastings notes that “41% of Joe Biden voters adopt the same stance about blue states.”

Hastings goes on to provide the mandatory fretting over possible secession being the fault of … you guessed it – Donald Trump.

“Some Canadian friends, serious people who are not in the least sensationalist-minded, told me this week that they are getting sincerely nervous about possibilities that beckon if Donald Trump or a Trump clone becomes president in 2024,” he writes.

“They ask: ‘Could violence erupt, and secession become a serious issue?'”

The late, great conservative radio icon, Rush Limbaugh, just two months before his death, warned that America appeared to be heading down a path where secession would become more popular.