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What I would like to do with this thread is to collect any example of public opinion, local or national, about the presence of Confederate monuments, road names, school names, flags, etc. We discuss the ongoing debate about these items on various threads, but there's very little information that I've seen about what the public at large believes should be done. I think it would be useful to have a thread that collects any polling done on the topic as a reference. If anyone has seen another poll or survey; local, statewide or national, please add it.
I'll start the thread with this one:
April 19, 2016, Louisiana, statewide poll
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b079...uisianans-oppose-removing-confederate-statues
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A majority of people in Louisiana oppose taking down Confederate monuments, a Louisiana State University poll has found.
The survey released Monday examined feelings statewide about New Orleans' plan to remove prominent Confederate statues, including a towering figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Seventy-three percent of respondents said they opposed removing the Confederate memorials. The poll found 88 percent of whites opposed removal, while 47 percent of blacks also opposed removal.
A different poll, released earlier this month by the University of New Orleans, looked only at New Orleans residents and found about half in favor of removal.
At the urging of Mayor Mitch Landrieu, the City Council voted in December to remove the monuments, which are still a source of passion in this Deep South state.
The poll, which had a plus-or-minus 3 percent margin of error, was based on interviews conducted in February with 1,001 people.
The views expressed were not surprising, said Michael Henderson, the research director at LSU's Public Policy Research Lab. He worked on the poll.
"Louisiana is a socially conservative state, a Southern state," he said.
Both polls found tolerance toward Confederate symbols, even among blacks.
I'll start the thread with this one:
April 19, 2016, Louisiana, statewide poll
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b079...uisianans-oppose-removing-confederate-statues
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A majority of people in Louisiana oppose taking down Confederate monuments, a Louisiana State University poll has found.
The survey released Monday examined feelings statewide about New Orleans' plan to remove prominent Confederate statues, including a towering figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Seventy-three percent of respondents said they opposed removing the Confederate memorials. The poll found 88 percent of whites opposed removal, while 47 percent of blacks also opposed removal.
A different poll, released earlier this month by the University of New Orleans, looked only at New Orleans residents and found about half in favor of removal.
At the urging of Mayor Mitch Landrieu, the City Council voted in December to remove the monuments, which are still a source of passion in this Deep South state.
The poll, which had a plus-or-minus 3 percent margin of error, was based on interviews conducted in February with 1,001 people.
The views expressed were not surprising, said Michael Henderson, the research director at LSU's Public Policy Research Lab. He worked on the poll.
"Louisiana is a socially conservative state, a Southern state," he said.
Both polls found tolerance toward Confederate symbols, even among blacks.
Bringing the