Survey: Majority say it’s OK to take down ‘that flag’
JULY 17, 2015
... The results of the special survey about the Confederate flag — with 1,050 adult respondents, done online and with a margin of error of 3 percent — found that when asked if “government should ban the display of the Confederate flag on any publicly funded structure or flagpole,” 52 percent of whites support taking down the flag, while 85 percent of African Americans and 69 percent of Hispanics support such a move.
Asked if “private companies like Wal-Mart and Amazon were right to say recently that they will stop selling merchandise on which the Confederate flag is displayed,” 57 percent of whites are in support of removing flag products, with 94 percent of African Americans and 68 percent of Hispanics in support.
But the three groups differed greatly when asked to select between three options when “you see the Confederate flag.” Just 18 percent of whites and 31 percent of Hispanics saw it as a symbol of “racial prejudice against African Americans or others,” compared to 72 percent for African Americans.
Finally, 56 percent of all Americans agree that “government should be able to deny issuing license plates to a group that wants to display a Confederate flag on the plates,” with 44 percent disagreeing ...
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