46% of Mississippii Repubs says interracial marriage should be illegal...

[cynatnite]

Yes, this is a few years old, but I thought it was important after the Cheerios ad featuring a biracial couple and their child.

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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 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%.

The poll also found that voters who thought interracial marriage should be banned liked Barbour, Palin, and Huckabee the most among the slate of potential GOP presidential candidates. Seventy-nine percent of those voters said they approved of Gov. Barbour’s job performance, while 74% said they had a favorable opinion of Sarah Palin, and 73% viewed Huckabee favorably.

In February, a Gallup poll found that Mississippi was the most conservative state in the nation. In that survey, 50.0% of adults identified themselves as conservatives.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/nearly-of-mississippi-republicans-think-interracial-marriage-should-be-illegal.php?ref=fpb

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. i cry for this country at times.

[limpyhobbler]

2. Mississippi - won't be my vacation destination. nt

[Laelth]

3. Hmm ... most conservative and poorest. Is there a connection?

I feel really sorry for the good people of Mississippi.

-Laelth

[Dwayne Hicks]

4. Disgusting

Mississippi really is a bane on the nation. Its easily the worst southern state and that is quite an accomplishment. Not surprising though they are also the poorest and most uneducated.