29% of likely GOP primary voters in Mississippi think interracial marriage should be illegal

Apparently there’s a lot of likely Republican primary voters in Mississippi who still believe interracial marriage should be illegal;

Q24 Do you think that interracial marriage should be legal or illegal?
Legal ……………………………………………………… 54%
Illegal …………………………………………………….. 29%
Not sure …………………………………………………. 17%

Those 29% of likely GOP primary voters in Mississippi are precisely the types of folks that the Republican presidential contenders are trying to out-conservative each other to woo, and that’s saying something about the state of the Republican Party.

Share:

Related Articles

7 thoughts on “29% of likely GOP primary voters in Mississippi think interracial marriage should be illegal

  1. I checked your link, and your numbers do not match with Q24:

    Q24 Do you think that interracial marriage should be
    legal or illegal?
    Legal……………………………………………………… 67%
    Illegal …………………………………………………….. 21%
    Not sure …………………………………………………. 12%

    This is from the report.

    Also, do you happen to have a poll that asks the same question of Democrats? Only 3 percent said they were Dems, but being Mississippi I would venture to guess that the number that say illegal would surprise even you.

    Another little factoid…21 percent said independent, so to paint this as entirely Republican is not correct use of the data.

    While I think the 21 percent are wrong, I equally think this is wrong for you to say that it is “just” the Republicans who think this without also posting a survey of Democrats.

    1. You need to scroll down to the Mississippi poll results….page 33.

      Regardless, even if we look at the Alabama results, 21% is a big number.

  2. No Mark, Zach didn’t say “just Republicans”. The poll sample was OF Republicans. But forget about the attempted deflection. Opposition to interracial marriage is as about as close to the definition of racism as it gets, so ANYONE who thinks interracial marriage IS a racist.

    And racism is alive and well in Mississippi.

    And if you want to show a poll of Democrats, then why not go find one and post it here. I’m not going to do your work for you.

  3. Rich:

    Casting aside the fact that you can’t read my post without screaming racism, perhaps you should answer my point (beside the fact that the numbers reported by Zach differ from the survey). What would a similar survey of Democrats say? I am not a pollster, and I could not find that result. But it would be fair to compare the entire population’s poll results before going off that “x” percent are racist.

    It was stated that this is a survey of Republicans, and it shows that 21 percent don’t believe in interracial marriage. (From the survey’s question, not Zach’s post). That’s not true, because further in the survey 21 percent say they are independent, and 3 percent say Democrat. So it is NOT a survey “of Republicans”.

    But further to the point is why did the pollster ask this and other questions (evolution, Auburn/Alabama fan ) that had absolutely nothing to do with the choice of a candidate? They did it for the shock value…look at the mileage they are getting out of this single question.

    And what about racial makeup? Much to the shock of you, I know, is that there are black republicans. And some of the most critical folks I’ve met regarding interracial marriage ARE blacks (both democrat and republican). Where’s that breakdown? They didn’t ask it because they wanted to skew the results.

    1. Mark, you are just wrong. The problem here is that southern Republicans are showing up as ignorant racists in lots and lots of polls. The ones who think Obama is a Muslim also show racism, but it is impossible to convince you that your fellow Republicans are racist.

      Let me challenge you, then. Do you believe Obama is a Christian? Do you believe interracial marriage is OK? If so, why are you not upset when polls show lots of people with such racist views, no matter their party?

      The answer? You are a partisan apologist.

  4. Mark1: “But further to the point is why did the pollster ask this and other questions (evolution, Auburn/Alabama fan ) that had absolutely nothing to do with the choice of a candidate? They did it for the shock value…look at the mileage they are getting out of this single question.”

    Zuma: Well, Mark, the truth hurts, doesn’t it? Hey, sometimes the truth is shocking, but it is ALWAYS relevant. I’m sorry the truth here hurts your feelings as much as it does. You’re right, though, these things are certainly inconvenient truths for Republicans.

    This “just in”. A majority of Republicans also think that the President is a “Muslim”. No racism there, huh, Mark? And it isn’t black people that think that.

    Anyway, Mark, it’s nice to see that you’ve got all of the talking points down. By the way, I’ve already seen them elsewhere. But that said, you recited them well enough.

    Mark1: “And what about racial makeup? Much to the shock of you, I know, is that there are black republicans. And some of the most critical folks I’ve met regarding interracial marriage ARE blacks (both democrat and republican). Where’s that breakdown? They didn’t ask it because they wanted to skew the results.”

    Poor, sweet Mark. That nasty specter of racism that hangs over the Republican Party – you’re pretty sensitive about that, huh? Look, Mark, it is what it is. Stop flailing about for false equivalencies.

    When I was in law school, Mark, I dated a Jewish girl whose family had been kicked out of Egypt by Nassar after Israel defeated the Arab coalition that had attacked it in 1957. Jews are generally insular anyway, for good reason (centuries of discrimination, the Holocaust, etc), but Terry’s family was particular unreceptive to having a “goy” dating, then living with, their daughter. It wasn’t cool, I didn’t like it, but I did understand it.

    You’re a white boy, right, Mark? Stop trying to explain the black experience. Black people and white people come from a distinctly different historical/cultural place, and they have distinctly different reasons for opposing interracial marriage.

    The problem that you have is that the reason that white people oppose interracial marriage has to do with racism, no matter how you try to deflect from that fact. I don’t think that it’s cool when black people oppose interracial marriage,but they’re not coming from a fundamentally racist place when they do it. Like Terry’s family, and Jews in general, they have just developed a certain way of dealing with things, in the case of blacks, with the legacy of slavery and the realities of dealing with white racism.

    Racism is endemic amongst Republicans. You can dance all you want to around that fact, but it won’t change it. It also won’t change the fact that the Republican Party is the party of old white men and “The Southern Strategy.”

    And that they called it “The Southern Strategy” for a reason.

  5. As if it wasn’t already abundantly clear that racism isn’t just a “Southern” problem:

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/19/1075696/-Illinois-Republican-primary-voters-President-Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim-and-might-not-be-American

    @ Mark1

    Here’s how the author ended the linked article:

    “But whatever your explanation for these answers might be, they reveal something about the Republicans who provided them – not the pollster who polled them.”

    Words to live by, Mark.

Comments are closed.