37 Percent Of Mississippi GOPers Would Back Confederates In Civil War (82% Dems Back Union)

TPM ^ | 7-15-2014 | Daniel Strauss

[equalator]

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.

[givemELL]

Here is the 2010 MS Census data for anyone interested:

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/28000.html

[rhinohunter]

Of course, the only purpose of this poll is to smear McDaniel supporters.
But the poll that would interest me would be to ask who would support splitting into 2 nations: are red state nation and a blue state nation. Broken down by party alffiation, I suspect you’d find a lot of support among Conservative voters, but would be wildly unpopular with libs and moderates.

[plain talk]

I thought the same thing. Depends on how the question was framed. I would not support States rights to stay in the union and be able to enslave people. I would however support the ability of a state to leave and form their own separate country ... thus I would support the CSA ability to secede.

I would not live in a state that supported slavery. Thus if I lived in Mississippi and the choice was stay in the union/abolish slavery or leave the union & keep slavery I would vote for the former. This is all in the context of the 1860 debate.

Today’s situation is different. I believe every state should have the right to secede and form their own country and I’m ready to do that now if it could be done peacefully.

[Tau Food]

Nearly everybody is opposed to slavery now and the vast majority of people in this country (both North and South) are thankful that Lincoln and the Union put an end to slavery and protected the Constitutional rights and citizenship of all Americans, North and South.

[Scoutmaster]

I have a couple of sources for you, but I’ll warn you that linen is in constant need of pressing.

[a fool in paradise]

37% of those Democrats have been running a Socialist uncivil war against the US for half a century now. Stalinists lie. ALWAYS.

[Sherman Logan]

There is not a state in the nation where this could be done “peacefully.”

Our divisions today, unlike in 1860, are not regional. They are ideological and cultural, and they’re mixed across America. Even the most conservative state has a great many liberals, and the reverse is also true.

Any civil war in America today would not be a war between regions like the WBTS, it would be a true civil war, and would be much nastier.

[B4Ranch]

Obama and Holder have accomplish true miracles in race relations.

[plain talk]

Even the most conservative state has a great many liberals, and the reverse is also true.

Yep. I've reminded some of that very fact. Physical secession would be extremely problematic.