Public Policy Polling released a survey last week that should cause stomachs to churn throughout polite society; among Republican primary voters in Mississippi, 46% of respondents believe that interracial marriage should not be legal.Let's set aside for a moment the question of whether or not this is a uniquely Republican problem, and deduce the basic message: nearly half of the poll's respondents believe a marriage should be criminalized based simply on the skin color of its partners. Combined with 14% of those who said they were
not sure, you have an astounding 60% of Mississippi Republicans believing that marriage between members of two different races may be a criminal act.
For more, see Mississippi GOP's Embarrassing Interracial Fears by , April 10, 2011 at FrumForum.
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