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Voters Oppose Removing Confederate Monuments
Rasmussen Reports ^ | June 2017 | Scott Rasmussen

Posted on 08/14/2017 7:46:17 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Four Confederate monuments were removed from New Orleans earlier this month following complaints that they celebrate racism, and now the city of Baltimore has plans to follow suit. But most voters oppose taking away these remnants of the past even if they are unpopular with some.

While proposals have been made to get rid of monuments such as the Jefferson Memorial and the carving on Stone Mountain in Georgia because they honor men who practiced or defended slavery, just 19% of Likely U.S. Voters think the United States should erase symbols of its past history that are out of line with current sentiments. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 69% oppose erasing these historical symbols. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Louisiana; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2017polls; americanhistory; confederate; dixie; poll; polling; purge
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To: Trump20162020

Wow, imagine what we could do if we had democratically elected representatives in a functioning republic.


21 posted on 08/14/2017 8:10:18 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: Trump20162020

It’s another version of the Snowflake/Safe-Space ideology!!!!

If you are in a Safe Space, you can’t learn anything! Confederate monuments help current Americans learn history and American culture.

The alternative is people wth blank minds who are susceptible to following demagogues—North Korea style!!!!

PHOOEY!!!!


22 posted on 08/14/2017 8:10:59 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: apoliticalone

The longer this stuff goes on the bigger the backlash. Approval for purging of history should take a super majority and not just a political hack listening to one side. Someone needs to remember this purging can work in many different ways and it will become a massive destabilizing influence.


This is organized activism. The goosestepping hack quoted in a story about the Durham statue is employed by a “community organizing” outfit with a 300k budget.


23 posted on 08/14/2017 8:11:15 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Trump20162020

That is the consensus I have heard over the last two days. Adults, 55+ and me eavesdropping on conversations. Taking down a statue helps nothing. Antifa and BLM, are ISIS and the Taliban, evil to their cores all of them.


24 posted on 08/14/2017 8:11:28 PM PDT by madison10
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To: txhurl

You don’t even believe that.


25 posted on 08/14/2017 8:11:37 PM PDT by sport
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To: madison10

No doubt this is all agitprop theater. Organized by the likes of Soros and Tides Foundation funded activist Democrats.


26 posted on 08/14/2017 8:12:45 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: manc

I think it is actually female.


27 posted on 08/14/2017 8:13:09 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Trump20162020

That statue is the only thing that bovine could get on top of that still has all it’s teeth and wouldn’t throw up. She’ll be back in the group home or single-wide by sundown.


28 posted on 08/14/2017 8:15:43 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." - John Steinbeck)
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To: magna carta; Trump20162020
They can't kill history; but I wonder when they'll try, by burning books.

I agree, that people who have the resources should try to save these statues and put them on private land.

So many beautiful works of art have been destroyed by the angry Muslims; and you would think that these home-grown idiots would have learned a lesson, if they have any understanding of the importance of history and art to the human condition. At least we still have pictures.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3101031/ISIS-destroys-famous-lion-god-statue-captured-Syrian-city-just-days-promising-locals-not-obliterate-Palmyra-s-ancient-monuments.html
29 posted on 08/14/2017 8:16:54 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: sport

I most certainly do. The Left/Soros is desperate for us to *show ourselves*, which we absolutely must NOT do (camoflaged ourselves pretty good during the election, no?), f%#*k up their voter data models for the midterms. They’re desperate, you don’t smell their panic and fear?


30 posted on 08/14/2017 8:19:00 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: All

Even if you agree with the removal of Confederate statues you’d be deluding yourself if you think Ultra-Left fascists are going to stop with a just a few Civil War generals. They will eventually take down every statue of every great american on the grounds they are white and male.
Washington owned slaves? better take it down.
Lincoln said something racist once? better take it down
it will never stop till American history is totally destroyed.


31 posted on 08/14/2017 8:19:43 PM PDT by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Growing up I felt sorry for the people living in Russia. They only heard propaganda from their biased media, they didn’t have freedom of speech, religion was suppressed, and their history was distorted.

We are now like that but the young people don’t know, they have been brainwashed by their teachers and professors.


32 posted on 08/14/2017 8:22:11 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Trump20162020

Let the left keep it up. It reminds people of why they don’t vote for them. Their only platform is ridicule of those who look/act/believe something different.

Next: George Washington - didn’t he have slaves? Then there is Lincoln - didn’t he say less than flattering things about Blacks? Let’s blow up Mt Rushmore.

Libs have nothing constructive to add to the national discussion, and that is sad, as we need different points of view.


33 posted on 08/14/2017 8:31:44 PM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: Trump20162020

OF COURSE!! It smells of ISIS or Taliban kind of tactic. The left always over reaches and then the deep state media complex cheers them on and celebrates them while we’re called Nazis.

Nobody but the weenies in the GOP buy into their narrative.


34 posted on 08/14/2017 8:34:39 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: satan

Nope voters and more importantly the tax payers don’t count.


35 posted on 08/14/2017 8:36:42 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Trump20162020

Take down all of the statues. Sign all kinds of new “rights” bills. Outlaw all speech that doesn’t support the liberal agenda. A generation in the future nothing will have changed as far as the races are concerned.


36 posted on 08/14/2017 8:37:50 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: boycott

Those racist Confederates fought for slavery. Their monuments attest to it. Wait. What monuments?


37 posted on 08/14/2017 8:39:39 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Trump20162020

Why not replace the statues of Confederate generals with statues of Union generals?The first that comes to mind would be General Grant. And General Sherman for making Georgia howl.Also, Phil Sheridan -— he did a wonderful job on the Shenandoah Valley!


38 posted on 08/14/2017 8:54:29 PM PDT by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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Ann Coulter Retweeted Larry Elder‏Verified account @larryelder Aug 13

About #Charlottesville...

39 posted on 08/14/2017 8:58:07 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Trump20162020

So why do they keep electing people who go along with this outrage? - I know - ignorance and indolence.....


40 posted on 08/14/2017 9:06:44 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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