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Wow, can't believe some still people think this way...
The PPP poll shows that Mississippians aged 18-29 are more likely to think interracial marriages should be illegal than those aged 30-45 and those 45-65. The younger generation were pretty similar to those 65 and older in their views on the legality of interracial marriages.
Aged 18-29: 30% say interracial marriages should be legal, while 54% say illegal
Aged 30-45: 48% say legal, while 38% say illegal
Aged 55-65: 49% legal, 39% illegal
Aged 65+: 30% legal, 56% illegal
Wow, can't believe some still people think this way...
The PPP poll shows that Mississippians aged 18-29 are more likely to think interracial marriages should be illegal than those aged 30-45 and those 45-65. The younger generation were pretty similar to those 65 and older in their views on the legality of interracial marriages.
Aged 18-29: 30% say interracial marriages should be legal, while 54% say illegal
Aged 30-45: 48% say legal, while 38% say illegal
Aged 55-65: 49% legal, 39% illegal
Aged 65+: 30% legal, 56% illegal
PPP, a Democrat-affiliated polling firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina, said it 'surveyed 400 usual Mississippi Republican primary voters from March 24 to 27'.
I have to wonder what kind of result they would have gotten had they interviewed a comparable number of Mississippi Democrats? Their results are pretty useless unless put in perspective. In the South, I suspect racism is as much a regional issue as it is D vs R. Maybe a Republican-affiliated polling firm should go and conduct a poll on Dems.
I would have thought the 18-29 segment would be more open-minded and embrace the social trends of 1960s....... Besides, there seem to be a lot of religious people there - maybe their Jesus teaches differently.
I have to wonder what kind of result they would have gotten had they interviewed a comparable number of Mississippi Democrats?
Exactly. The insinuation that Republicans are less tolerant than Democrats is meaningless, at best, without seeing the same poll question asked of Democrats in the same state and using the same methodology.
I agree that this is almost certainly a regional issue, and has very little (if anything) to do with political affiliation.
This is interesting:
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The survey’s margin of error is +/-4.9%. Other factors, such as refusal to be interviewed and weighting, may introduce additional error that is more difficult to quantify.
4.9% is a pretty high margin of error for a scientific poll.
It is a generational thing. Bigotry is handed down in some parts of the country from one family member to another.
I assume you are speaking of both blacks and whites when you talk about bigotry being handed down. Because I can tell you from personal experience that black people don't welcome a white person into the family just like that.
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I mean, look at Billy-Bob Clinton and the peanut farmer from Georgia.
