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.
Why not poll the entire confederate states? When you get right down to it, refighting the Civil War is the last option for the GOPTP.
Some 150 years after the original war and we have a Black President. Things are not going well with the “South Will Rise Again”.
So, maybe THEY should not be allowed to vote?
Seriously, someone answers a direct question asking if they would commit treason and they say “YES” resoundingly, if there was ever a disqualifier for voting rights, it would be that answer from them, certainly more than NOT HAVING AN “OFFICIAL” I.D.
No doubt the very same people who so jovially espoused sedition also consider themselves paramount patriots. Cognitive reasoning is one thing, but their ability to maintain two mortally opposing ideologies and be proud of both of them as if they aren’t self-nullifying, is just dumbfounding.
The fact they do not consider it treason, nor do they remember that it was all based on chattel slavery, is at the root of many of our current racial issues.
What do these bigots do when they are behind closed doors? Is there ever one among them who will stand up to their lies? Or do they just devolve into racist rants and hateful rhetoric whenever there’s no real adult around?
Whenever I hear “The South’s Gonna Rise Again” I wonder where their new slaves will come from.
Well, after the chant they usually throw their glasses into the fireplace. So I think it will be a mixture of the poor, women and children.
Damn. I kinda knew it, but… damn!