Almost half of Mississippi Republican voters polled said interracial marriage should be illegal

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9. slavery didn't cause the civil war, it was about state's rights - i hear that all the time

i am quick to point out to whoever says it that the specific right was that of slaveowners to take their slaves into the western territories. they also like to point out that lincoln didn't invade the south to free slaves but to preserve the union. this is true, but again only half the story, the south started the war in an attempt to leave the union because they knew they were losing the political power in congress needed to maintain their "right" to take slaves into western territories.

but that "slavery didn't cause the war" nonsense is very common among white southern conservatives. wjite liberals, blacks and hispanics know better.

edited to say: i m surprised by the marriage views. i really am, i would not have expected that high a number even among such an iliberal group as the mississippi gop. wow