46 Percent of Mississippi Republicans Want Interracial Marriage Banned

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-04-08 12:15

  A new poll gauging Mississippi Republicans' preferences going into the 2012 election ended up revealing something more startling: 46 percent of GOP voters in the state think interracial marriage should be illegal.
  
  Results were announced Thursday by Public Policy Polling, a polling firm based in North Carolina. The company asked 400 Republican primary voters about their preferences for candidates for state and national offices, as well as their views on interracial marriage.
  A whopping 46 percent of likely GOP primary voters said they think interracial marriage should be illegal, while only 40 percent said they think it should be allowed. Another 14 percent said they were unsure.
  
  It was only 45 years ago that Mississippi legalized interracial marriage, and this poll indicates it continues to be a controversial subject.
  
  The poll also found that Mississippi Republicans back Haley Barbour, their outgoing governor, to run for president on the GOP ticket in 2012. Barbour had 37 percent of respondents' support, followed by Mike Huckabee with 19 percent and Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin tied for third place with 10 percent each.
  
  The PPP poll also revealed that Palin has more support among voters who believe interracial marriage should be illegal than among those who are OK with it. Mitt Romney's numbers reveal just the opposite. He has a higher favorability among Mississippi Republicans who want interracial marriage to remain legal.
  
  The poll was conducted by telephone between March 24 and 27 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percent.
  
  PPP describes itself as a nonpartisan polling firm, but it has been described in other media as a Democratic-leaning company.
  
  The firm also conducted a separate poll of non-Republican voters, asking them the same question about interracial marriage. Those results are expected to be released in the coming weeks, along with those from another PPP poll asking Mississippi voters whether they think the right side -- the North or South -- won the Civil War.

  
  
  http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/08/46-percent-of-mississippi-republicans-want-interracial-marriage/
  
  still socially backwards
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-04-08 12:46
  Man... This is probably the most unusual thing I've heard in modern years. I really thought those days were over and I'm surprised there are people out there who are actually still concerned with it... and it got the most votes, too.
  
  As a person who dates almost exclusively outside of my race and is open to everyone I'm attracted to regardless of race, it makes me somewhat uncomfortable.
• Sinned wrote on 2012-04-08 13:39
  I'll go with Confucius saying and say these are the worst type of people, ignorant and unwilling to learn.
  
  There's a good chance they may have "interracial" genes in them due to ancestry considering how history shows how much intermingling between territories (Indian Ocean trade for example).
• Kaeporo wrote on 2012-04-08 13:42
  I've only been to Mississippi for Air Force technical school. Some of those people are crazy. I saw a bumper sticker off base that said "Keep Biloxi Clean! Kill an Airman"
• paladin wrote on 2012-04-08 13:51
  400 very small group
  It still shows there are pockets thou
• Taycat wrote on 2012-04-08 14:04
  Here in Tennessee, we like to think that Mississippi doesn't exist.
  
  At least, in Memphis. Sadly, it's hard considering how close the casino is and that Southaven has some useful things there.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-04-08 14:31

  Quote from paladin;833914:

  400 very small group
  It still shows there are pockets thou

  
  
  surveys for the entire country are usually around 1000 to 1500 people
  and if you know how statistics work
  Sample size doesn't matter that much
• Meikeru wrote on 2012-04-08 14:33
  Loving v Virginia, never going to pass.
• Bride wrote on 2012-04-08 14:37
  this really shouldn't surprise me but it does. racism will really never go away
  
  :what:
  
  Reminds me of how my friend's grandparents were against her marriage to her husband because they're white and he was filipino
  even though my friend had mixed ancestry (white/native american), they insisted he'd taint the bloodline. pfpfpffhffbfbfbbfff
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-04-08 16:46

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;833934:

  surveys for the entire country are usually around 1000 to 1500 people
  and if you know how statistics work
  Sample size doesn't matter that much

  
  It's pretty relevant when it's very low. I don't think flipping a coin 500 times would be sufficient enough to tell if the odds are really 50/50 when it's very possible for it to come up something like 38/62 with that small number of flips, but far more unlikely with 10,000, for example. I don't think 1,000 to 1,500 is enough for a country of hundreds of millions.
• Kollin wrote on 2012-04-08 17:21
  Interracial? What other races do we have? We are all of the human race, unless we have some aliens running around that I don't know of.
• Cynic wrote on 2012-04-08 17:50
  >Mississippi
  
  Doesn't surprise me much. Racism has and will continue to die down. It's no longer a super huge issue in most places; they aren't openly denied their rights, killed or beaten without punishment. At-least not in a considerable amount of ways/places.
  
  But yeah, racists will always breed more mini racists.
• Episkey wrote on 2012-04-08 18:24
  Interesting.
  
  But a few people have expressed a concern over sample size. I was doing Statistics homework, so I said "Oh, this might be fun."
  
  I decided to analyze the claim using some of my very basic Statistical knowledge:
  
  1-) Claim: p=.46
  2-) Ho: p=.46
  3-) Ha: p≠.46
  4-) Claim = Ho
  5-) Two-tailed test
  6-) Zcv (Critical value) = 1.6448 (I used an alpha value of .05, since I don't know the level of significance. It's standard to use that value anyway.)
  7-) Ztest (Test Score) = 1.9918 and -1.9918
  
  I got the test scores based off the margin of error as stated in the study.
  
  

  The poll was conducted by telephone between March 24 and 27 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percent.

  
  
  8-) Since the test score is within the critical value, I can reject the null hypothesis. (Reject Ho)
  
  9-) At the 5% level of significance, there is enough evidence to reject the claim that "46 Percent of Mississippi Republicans Want Interracial Marriage Banned."
  
  Therefore, based on the statistical data provided at that level of significance (which is kinda low ... ) the claim cannot be supported.
  
  Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I may have screwed up somewhere. Heh heh~
• animeshadows wrote on 2012-04-08 21:30
  People who do not, or refuse to, understand the mechanics of rain shouldn't be allowed to live in this country. If it rains "because Jesus is sad that the gays are getting married," I pity you.
• Episkey wrote on 2012-04-09 02:48

  Quote from animeshadows;834131:

  People who do not, or refuse to, understand the mechanics of rain shouldn't be allowed to live in this country. If it rains "because Jesus is sad that the gays are getting married," I pity you.

  
  
  O_O
  I guess ... ? [S]Is this a response for another thread?[/S] :<
  
  As a Christian - Even though I believe God can very well change whether, rain is simply a natural phenomenon.
  
  I think most Christians would agree that the weather isn't an indicative of God's mood, if it were true - I think it would rain 24/7 :T_T: