I want to talk frankly about the south hate here

[Uncle Joe]

198. Your post makes my point

an "overwhelming" number of the people in the South don't favor banning by force of law, interracial marriage, natiioniwde views against interracial marriage are changing even in the South.

The numbers on this first poll are even better when it comes to white/latino/hispanic marriages.

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/28417/most-americans-approve-interracial-marriages.aspx

Most Americans Approve of Interracial Marriages



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This poll is an example of what I'm talking about when I speak of what you or anybody focuses on as being critical in forming perspectives, in this case a negative but even in this instance an overwhelming majority of Southerners aren't opposed to interracial marriage it's a of "plurality" of Republicans, 46%.

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http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/poll-46-of-missississippi-republicans-think-interracial-marriage-should-be-illegal/

Poll: 46% Of Mississippi Republicans Think Interracial Marriage Should Be Illegal

"In a PPP poll released Thursday, a 46% plurality of registered Republican voters said they thought interracial marriage was not just wrong, but that it should be illegal. 40% said interracial marriage should be legal."


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This poll takes the big picture, long term view

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http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-trends-in-interracial-marriage-52318347.html

New Trends in Interracial Marriage

Nevertheless, it is clear that acceptance of interracial unions is on
the rise. In 1972, five years after all laws in the US against interracial
marriage had been declared unconstitutional, 39% of Americans still favored
laws against racial intermarriage. This percentage has steadily dropped
over time, so that by 2002 only 10% of Americans surveyed in the General
Social Survey said they favored laws against interracial marriage. Young
adults are more favorably disposed to interracial marriage than their
elders: only 4% of young adults surveyed in 2002 favored laws against
interracial marriage. Another sign of changing times: Barack Obama's
parents were married in Hawaii in 1960, and at that time their marriage
would have been illegal in more than half of US states, because they were
an interracial couple.


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This final poll and the wording in the column makes my point as to how whether you focus on the positve or negative in forming misconceptions or stereotypes about an entire region which are then exploited by the very people, you don't want in power.

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/ppp-poll-gop-voters-in-al-ms-think-obama-is-muslim-unsure-about-interracial-marriage.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

Poll: GOP Voters In Deep South Think Obama Is Muslim, Unsure On Interracial Marriage

"Interracial marriage laws were overturned by the Supreme Court in 1967, but a significant minority of Mississippi and Alabama apparently still long for their return, or are at least ambivalent about the idea. In Alabama, 67 percent of respondents said interracial marriage should be allowed, but 21 percent said it should be illegal and another 12 percent were not sure. Mississippi Republican voters were even more divided: Only 52 percent said such marriages should be legal, versus 29 percent who said they should be banned and 17 percent who were unsure."

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That's only the Republicans' perspective on this final poll, it doesn't include Democrats which would no doubt improve those numbers even more, having said that if a President wins an election by 67% that's not "unsure" that's a mandate.

That number of 67% approval of Alabama "Republicans" exceeds the national approval of everybody in that first poll in 2002.

No doubt parts of the South has its' problems being more conservative and slower to adapt to changing condtions in a more positive, inclusive manner but the "entire region" isn't "dangerous to visit."

The South is changing just like the rest of the nation but I believe if people truly want to speed that process along in favorable a direction, then commonality should be the primary focus versus diifferences.

Peace to you,