The poll was run only in Mississippi and Alabama because those states' primaries were a couple of days away. The author weakens his valid overall point by overreaching to make things sinister.
Interracial marriage??? I mean, really? REALLY??
This poll was in 2010 or 2011... there's HOW MUCH problem with interracial marriage these days.....?
But let's ask that in the South, and see if we can tie the ignorant answers into the Obama is a Muslim meme, to discredit the South AND the meme.
I'm not buying that there was no sinister motive.
Just the same, I’d like to see the same questions asked in other areas of the country. From my personal experience, spending three years stationed in Massachusetts, I heard and saw more anti-black prejudice there than in Alabama of the same time period.
It’s not just the South that has idiots. But a poll asking for idiotic replies in the South because the Yankee poll takers believe Southerners are idiots will vindicate those poll takers every time. To get accurate results then, they’d have to ask the same questions elsewhere. Think of it as a control. For all I know, they did, and didn’t like the results, so didn’t publish them.
Now as far as being a Muslim... A small boy, raised in a Muslim country with a Muslim step-father, whose biological father was muslim, and he was named for that same father, might—just could be—a muslim. Why is that so far-fetched or even, dare I say, redneck?