Poll: Voters perceive ups, downs in diversity

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(01-28) 04:00 PST Sacramento - -- A majority of California voters think the state's diversity is a source of strengths and challenges, and half have concerns about race relations, according to a Field Poll released today.

Fifty-eight percent of respondents said the state's varying nationalities, races, religions and lifestyles are equally an advantage and a source of problems, a view shared across racial lines. While 24 percent of respondents said diversity is only an advantage, 14 percent said it is only a source of problems.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/28/MNPP1BOFGG.DTL

Sadly, the comments on this article are dominated by those right-wing anti-multicultural types. :-(