Quebec did have some support for secession (about 5%) when the PQ started, but it rose significantly with PQ electoral successes.
And it wasn't totally antithetical either.
But I don't think we should rely wholly on this one example. Let's also take into account the fundraising capabilities of 20K, etc.
And let's also take into account the fact that the vast majority of Americans in all of the candidate States are unalterably opposed to repealing all Victimless Crime Laws.
Whereas there are hundreds of thousands of libertarians and other Lovers of Liberty who will be able to take over a State if only they concentrate together.
Spread out throughout the U.S., they will never ever ever repeal one single Victimless Crime Law. Concentrated into one State, they can repeal them all.
At first, before we attract that many, we will have only 5,000 to 10,000 or so. Spread out throughout the State, they will be a Majority nowhere, and they will never ever ever repeal one single Victimless Crime Law. A couple of thousand, though, concentrated into one Western County, can achieve most of the Freedom we need,
RIGHT AWAY!. That is the only way we will attract the rest of the Porcupines we need to take over the State. Libertarians are hesitant to go where someone says maybe we can gain a few concessions someday. When they see that they can move to a place where they already own the Sheriff's Department and all other public offices, and no Victimless Crime Laws are being enforced at all (except by a few closely-watched and widely-reported Feds), they will come in droves! Where else are they gonna go?
That beachhead will expand to a decisive victory in the entire State.
A mere 10,000, spread out and diluted, will be swallowed up, neutralized, outvoted at every turn, and never heard from again. You listen to me now. The LP has been failing with that strategy for 30 years.