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Nearly Half Of Mississippi Republicans Think Interracial Marriage Should Be Illegal
Talking Points Memo ^ | April 7, 2011, 4:18PM | Jon Terbush

Posted on 04/07/2011 6:45:19 PM PDT by rightcoast

Americans nationwide are evenly divided over the issue of same sex marriage. But Republicans in Mississippi are divided over a wholly different wedlock issue: interracial marriage.

In a PPP poll [pdf] released Thursday, a 46% plurality of registered Republican voters said they thought interracial marriage was not just wrong, but that it should be illegal. 40% said interracial marriage should be legal.

Gov. Haley Barbour, with a home state advantage in Mississippi, also topped PPP's survey of the GOP primary field at 37%, followed by Mike Huckabee at 19%, and Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich at 10%.

(Excerpt) Read more at tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: interracial; marriage; poll; racemixing
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PPP released another poll [pdf] a month ago with the loaded claim that Americans supported Charlie Sheen for president over Sarah Palin, so take with a mega-grain of salt.
1 posted on 04/07/2011 6:45:24 PM PDT by rightcoast
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To: rightcoast

To the headline: BS


2 posted on 04/07/2011 6:46:59 PM PDT by svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
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To: rightcoast

It got us Obama, didn’t it.


3 posted on 04/07/2011 6:47:01 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
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To: rightcoast

I call BS and racebaiting


4 posted on 04/07/2011 6:47:56 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: rightcoast

PPP is the pollster for Daily Kos and the DNC.


5 posted on 04/07/2011 6:49:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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To: rightcoast

So, what do non-Republican Mississippians think? Odd poll to run. Unless you were trying to influence public opinion and smear Republicans.


6 posted on 04/07/2011 6:56:19 PM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: rightcoast
Only half?

Not good news.

7 posted on 04/07/2011 6:58:40 PM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: rightcoast

They must have asked only black republicans.


8 posted on 04/07/2011 7:01:18 PM PDT by Jaidyn
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To: rightcoast

I absolutely do NOT believe this!


9 posted on 04/07/2011 7:04:26 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: rightcoast

Oh bullshit... we do not give a damn about who other people choose to love... but what we do REFUSE to do any longer, is to pay for the children that others wish to have and cannot support. That is the issue that matters and that issue transcends race.

LLS


10 posted on 04/07/2011 7:11:56 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: rightcoast
BS. If anything attitudes have relaxed towards this in Mississippi in the 22 years I have been here.
11 posted on 04/07/2011 7:14:38 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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The commie ‘RATS ain’t got nothin’ to pimp but race. This is bull****. Total bull****!


12 posted on 04/07/2011 7:15:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (How's that Keynesian economics working out for ya so far?)
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To: ejonesie22
Two things ~ (1) Yes, they are beginning to "ligthen up" in Mississippi ~ (that's a pun). (2) Way back when I was in the Infantry I served with guys from down there and they ALL got tans. I don't tan. All Mississippi guys got an advantage in the Souf'.

Not that tanning easily proves anything, but it does!

14 posted on 04/07/2011 7:17:42 PM PDT by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Amercans)
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To: rightcoast
Absolutely. Humans should not be allowed to marry sheep, or lobsters, or chickens. That is what 'inter-racial' marriage means, because we are all one race, the HUMAN race.

The absurd thing is, the way things are going, I'll probably be called out-dated and intolerant for even taking this position in a few years...

15 posted on 04/07/2011 7:18:52 PM PDT by Liberty1970 (Liberty, not License. Freedom, not Slavery.)
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To: rellik
it may be mixing up the gene pool, but it doesn't mix the racial pool - poles,scots and irish are part of the white racial pool last time I checked.

I think what the article was talking about was racial mixing as in white and black, not ethnic mixing with in one race.

17 posted on 04/07/2011 7:30:38 PM PDT by SamsFriend
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To: rightcoast

Somebody better alert Moses.


18 posted on 04/07/2011 7:31:08 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: rightcoast

This isn’t all that useful a statistic unless there are other states to compare it to, and some background information included as to in which states it’s most recently become legal. Breaking it down by race, and also comparing it to gradations of attitude might help too.

There was recently an interracial couple in Florida, if memory serves, where the woman was African-American, as were the two assailants looking to kill the man. They made it clear they attacked him because of that. I don’t know if those two would have been surveyed as thinking it should be against the law, but what they did was as bad as anything ever done in the South (or anywhere else), and I’d wager was far worse than anything in the heart of those Republican Mississippians who thought the old ways had some merit when looking at the results of all the new ways of doing and thinking about things.

Someone else also pointed out that taking a look at attitudes of Democrats in Mississippi on this should have been done too.


19 posted on 04/07/2011 7:35:33 PM PDT by OldNewYork (social justice isn't justice; it's just socialism)
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To: rightcoast

I agree.......


20 posted on 04/07/2011 7:39:11 PM PDT by shield (Rev2:9 Blasphemy of them which say they're Israelites, and are not, but are the synaGOGue of Satan.)
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