I live in Utah, and mingle with the folks every day. Call me arrogant all you like, but I live in rural red state America. I just call it like I see it. You can tell me I don't see and hear what I see and hear all you like and accuse me of watching the mainstream media, but I do not, and I go by what the people who invited me to the local tea party were talking about on our local email lists.
If you don't believe me, spend a few weeks reading the St. George Utah Spectrum, and see what the locals are really saying. "We're the ones with all the guns" is a popular saying around here.
Over the last few weeks at least once a week there has been a letter or editorial calling for secession.