Trump's supporters wish South had won Civil War, want Confederate flag back, poll shows (SC)

[struggle4progress]

By Leada Gore | [e-mail]
on February 16, 2016 at 12:13 PM
updated February 16, 2016 at 1:26 PM

... When asked if the Confederate flag should still be flying over the State Capitol, 70 percent of Trump supporters said "yes" and 20 percent said "no." The second-highest percent of support was among voters for Ted Cruz, 62 percent of whom said they thought the flag should have remained. The lowest amount of support for keeping the flag – 33 percent - was among voters for Ben Carson ...

Thirty-eight percent of Trump's supporters said they wish the South had won the Civil War. Twenty-four percent said they were glad the North won and 38 percent weren't sure.

Thirty-five percent of Cruz supporters said they wished the South had won, followed by 28 percent among prospective Jeb Bush voters. The lowest percentage was among Carson's supporters, 12 percent of whom thought the U.S. would be better under the Confederacy ...

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/donald_trumps_supporters_wish.html

[KamaAina]

1. But, but, but, tRump's a Yankee!

He's from goldang New York City, for Pete's sake!

[meow2u3]

5. tRump's a copperhead

A sellout Confederate sympathizer who should have been hanged for treason if he were alive in the 1860's.

[KamaAina]

6. Sadly, copperheads were Dems.

The repuke party had just come into existence under Lincoln.

[Stallion]

2. Toto-We're Not in New Hampshire Any More

nm

[eilen]

3. What does that actually mean?

Do these people -- have they thought about this? What that would mean? That would mean that those states that chose to secede would be their own country. No USA in their state. No military bases, no federal tax income. What would that mean in terms of human trafficking?

They would have a different constitution. Possibly a state religion with different flavors of "Christian" jockeying for power-- an unstable situation.

In fact, the chances of them becoming a failed state and invaded and subjugated after the Civil War would probably be pretty high.

[Victor_c3]

4. I find it funny how quick republican's point out That Abe Lincoln was one of them

They say that means republican's obviously aren't racist. However, the only party that talks about secession is the party of Libcoln - the guy that fought a war to keep the south from seceeding.

Go figure.

[pampango]

7. "By an 80/9 spread, Trump voters support his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States."

In fact 31% would support a ban on homosexuals entering the United States as well, something no more than 17% of anyone else's voters think is a good idea. There's also 62/23 support among Trump voters for creating a national database of Muslims and 40/36 support for shutting down all the mosques in the United States, something no one else's voters back. Only 44% of Trump voters think the practice of Islam should even be legal at all in the United States, to 33% who think it should be illegal. To put all the views toward Muslims in context though, 32% of Trump voters continue to believe the policy of Japanese internment during World War II was a good one, compared to only 33% who oppose it and 35% who have no opinion one way or another.

One surprising finding from the poll is that Ted Cruz has the worst net favorability rating of the candidates, with 42% of voters seeing him positively to 48% who have a negative opinion of him. He and Jeb Bush (41/43) are the only candidates under water.

[Major Nikon]

8. You don't have to be a bigot to be a Trump supporter

...but it's a great start.