Are there that many of them though? Outside of city states and micronations the small developed countries all have well functioning tax systems and some kind of major industry on which their economy is ultimately based.
This, I think some people will just outright lie to pollsters, here in the UK they call it the shy Tory vote, if you are an American the equivalent would be if you lived in a very liberal area you probably wouldn't want to be open about being a Republican unless you felt strongly about it since the way political tribalism is certain people will equate your voting intentions to whatever stereotypes the party has.
I'm skeptical of that...I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but for example in the US the assumption was that polling overestimated the support of black Democrats because people who just didn't want a black Democrat in office didn't want to articulate that they are racist to phone pollsters. But this was mostly having to do with a particular election (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect) and the degree to which it was consistent, or even present in the first place, was questionable.
You're missing my point- greece does not have the economy of a wealthy first world nation.
those states were richer than the others when the iron curtain fell- their growth hasn't been the greatest. that would be countries like Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan. Their agricultural sectors are still around the 4-5% marks but their industrial base hovers between 30-40%.
As a Californian, you have no idea how similar they really are, with an exception being that California has somehow managed to have at least something resembling an economy still. Both have elected what amount to neo-communists to their governments in overwhelming majorities. I know, the Democrats being called "socialist" is something a lot of people have tired of, but the Californian Democrats are completely different from your average left-leaning liberal Democrat that you'd find in a state that has political competition. The Greek populace voted against the one thing that could have saved it from going further into default while still staying within the EU (although Greece staying in the EU is still disastrous in any case), while the Californian populace repeatedly votes for business regulation that has caused an exodus of capital, bond measures that have absolutely no chance of being sustainably funded, and tax increases to fund the previous two that those who vote for them think won't affect them. It's shit like this that has made me lose all faith in democracy.
My assertion was that without a viable service sector commodities are needed to fuel growth and in the specific case of greece which lacks natural resources agriculture would have been the obvious alternative.
This is as good a justification as any that Greece should not be on the euro.
