January 04, 2019 06:25 PM
A record number of
Americans say they want to permanently leave the United States, according to a
new poll released Friday.
The Gallup poll found 16
percent of Americans would move to another country if they could. That
proportion has increased from when former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack
Obama were in the White House.
During the Obama years, 10
percent said they’d like to leave the U.S. for good. Eleven percent of
Americans said they preferred to live in another country when Bush was
president.
The percentage of women who
want to leave during the first two years of the Trump presidency has surged
since Obama was in office. Twenty percent of women said they’d like to live
elsewhere now that President Trump is in office, compared with 10 percent under
Obama and 11 percent during the Bush presidency.
Those numbers were lower for
men, with 10 percent wanting to leave under both Bush and Obama, compared with
13 percent under Trump.
The number of Americans under
the age of 30 wanting to leave the country grew to 30 percent during the Trump
presidency. Eighteen percent expressed the desire to move while Obama was
president, and 24 percent did during Bush’s tenure in the White House.
“More than anything else,
Trump himself may be the primary motivator,” the pollster said. “Regression
analysis shows that regardless of differences by gender, age or income — if
Americans disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president, they are more
likely to want to leave the U.S.”
The top destination for
Americans wanting to move is Canada.
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