Race: Can 46% of Mississippi Republicans Favor Banning Interracial Marriage?

From a survey across America:

By 2002 it was a consistent finding that less than 10% of Americans would accede to the proposition that interracial marriage should be legally banned. So the finding that that 46% of Mississippi Republicans agree with that position, and that only 40% reject it outright, is somewhat curious.

For more, see Can 46% of Mississippi Republicans Favor Banning Interracial Marriage? by Razib Khan, April 7, 2011 at DISCOVER's Gene Suppression.

This is a response to the original post, Race: Mississippi GOP's Embarrassing Interracial Fears April 16, 2011 at News and Old.