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Saturday, July 19th, 2014

37 Percent Of Mississippi GOPers Would Back Confederates In Civil War

Author:     DANIEL STRAUSS
Source:     TPM
Publication Date:     11:20 PM EDT, Fri Jul 18 2014
Link: 37 Percent Of Mississippi GOPers Would Back Confederates In Civil War
Stephan:   Part of the Great Schism Trend is the rise of a level of racism once thought to have disappeared in the U.S.. Actually I find racism amongst certain groups in some parts of the country as bad today, although expressed a little differently, than during the Civil Rights era, and I remember that very viscerally. But it isn't just racism that is being described by this poll. Increasingly I see a longing to break up the United States and I think that while the general Federal form may linger some form of separation is inevitable. For one thing I think within the next 20 years, as climate change stresses everything, the Blue value states are simply going to tire of subsidizing the dysfunctional Theocratic Rightist states. I can already see the first stages of this trend.

A new Public Policy Polling survey found that 37 percent of Republicans who voted in the Mississippi primary runoff election between incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) said they would back the Confederate side if there was another Civil War.

The poll, obtained by TPM, is full of goodies for poll geeks. Of those polled, including Democrats and Republicans, 50 percent said they would support the United States while 29 percent said they would support the Confederate States of America.

Broken down by party affiliation, 82 percent of Democrats said they would support the United States while just 9 percent said they would support the Confederate States of America. Among Republicans, 37 percent said they would support the Confederate States of America while 41 percent said they would support the United States. Another 21 percent of Republicans said they weren’t sure while 9 percent of Democrats said they weren’t sure.

PPP’s poll was conducted among 501 Republican primary voters from July 10 to 13. All those surveyed said they voted in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.

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