62 percent of Americans favor affirmative action programs: Gallup

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Roughly 62 percent of American adults support affirmative action programs for minority groups, the highest level of support recorded for such policies over the past 20 years, according to a new Gallup poll released Friday.

The support is up from the 54 percent who indicated support for affirmative action in 2016 and the 61 percent in 2018.

In 2001, when Gallup first measured support for policies that promote representation for traditionally underrepresented groups, about 47 percent of survey respondents backed the measures.

Gallup did not specify in the latest poll which type of affirmative action the survey referred to, but the analytics firm noted that respondents may have been thinking about job programs, given that the survey also asked about job opportunities.

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[Polybius]

1. Poll results depend on how the question is asked

If asked "do you support for policies that promote representation for traditionally underrepresented groups?" I'm surprised it wasn't higher than 62%. I'd like to see the same poll with the words "affirmative action" used instead.

[Caliman73]

2. I don't doubt there is support for equality. That is a nice vague word.

The problems come when you start talking about how it should be achieved.

The majority of people want people to be treated equally and fairly, but when you start talking about giving some type of preference in admissions to university or about how programs will be funded, then you start seeing a lot of that support go away.