Winthrop University has released a new public opinion poll about Southern racial and cultural attitudes in the 11 former Confederate states. I’ve included all the interesting results from the White South below. Feel free to look through the data yourself.
This data lines up with everything I have seen elsewhere: 1/3 of Whites support Black Lives Matter, 1/5 support Antifa, 7% support “white supremacy” and about 3% support Neo-Nazism. Meanwhile, 50% support the Confederate flag and monuments, 46% believe White people are under attack in this country and 31% support protecting and preserving White European heritage.
In the other polls I have seen (Washington Post, UVA, Marist), I have noticed a similar breakdown of explicit Whites (6% to 10% of the White population) and implicit Whites (1/3 to 1/2 of the White population). The argument over labels is exaggerated because White Nationalism, Alt-Right and Neo-Nazism all refer to the same stratum of the White population which says it doesn’t believe in racial equality. The only meaningful difference is the intensity of opposition.
The big divide between the hardcore nucleus of explicit Whites and the softer implicit Whites is over the morality of racism. The implicit Whites are willing to say Whites are under attack and White European heritage should be preserved, but they also say in public opinion polls that they believe in racial equality, support racial intermarriage, believe blacks should be allowed to live anywhere and that all races should be treated equally. Surprisingly, there is even a drop off in the number of explicit Whites who are willing to say this which leads me to believe a powerful taboo is at work here.
As for the American Nationalism debate, notice that Confederate monuments and Confederate flag have the same level as support as the Republican Party in the South. In Virginia, Ed Gillespie lost yesterday because the Republican Party is less popular than preserving Confederate monuments. Southern heritage is far more popular than the Alt-Right and nothing is lost by using the Confederate Battle Flag. 7 out of 10 White working class Americans see the Confederate Battle Flag as a Southern pride symbol. The same is true of 4 out of 10 White college educated Americans.
My takeaways:
– We should continue to use the Confederate Battle Flag. In fact, it will be easier for Southern Nationalists to capture the Confederate Battle Flag than the American flag.
– We should deemphasize bickering over divisive labels. I really wish all these groups would call themselves “populists” and “nationalists” instead of getting hung up on labels.
– We should incorporate a strong, masculine religious message into our activism.
– The optimistic mood about the economy is purely partisan and an illusion.
– We should continue to challenge weakened taboos.
– We need to talk a lot more about morality.
– We should continue to focus on issues which are already resonating.
What do you think is the most important problem facing the United States of America today? Politicians/Government, 6.8%
Thinking about the current path that our nation is taking, do you think our country is on the right track or headed in the wrong direction? Wrong direction, 55%
How would you rate the condition of the economy of the country as a whole these days? Is it very good, fairly good, fairly bad, or very bad? Fairly good, 65%
Right now, do you think that economic conditions in the country as a whole are getting better or getting worse? Getting better, 63%
How would you rate your financial situation today? As excellent, good, only fair, or poor? Good, 48%
Right now, do you think that your financial situation as a whole is getting better or getting worse? Getting better, 60%
Which of the following comes closest to your opinion about what to do with monuments or memorials to Confederate soldiers who died during the Civil War? Leave them just as they are, 50%, Move to a museum, 17%, Remove them completely 2%
Which of the following comes closest to your opinion about what to do with statues honoring Confederate war heroes? 48%, leave them just as they are
When you read or hear someone referred to as southern, do you imagine that person to be…
Close to their family 76%
Religious 61%
Not Racist 87%
I’d like to get your feelings toward some of our political leaders and other people or groups who are in the news these days. I’ll read the name of a person and I’d like you to rate that person using something we call the feeling thermometer.
Ratings between 50 degrees and 100 degrees mean that you feel favorable and warm toward the person or group. Ratings between 0 degrees and 50 degrees mean that you don’t feel favorable toward the person or group and that you don’t care too much for them.
You would rate the person or group at the 50 degree mark if you don’t feel particularly warm or cold toward the person or group.
If we come to a person or group whose name you don’t recognize, you don’t need to rate that person. Just tell me and we’ll move on to the next one.
Republican Party 52.1
Democratic Party 41
Antifa 21
Black Lives Matter 35.4
White Supremacists 6.6
Neo-Nazis 3.4
Confederate Flag 49.9
‘Political correctness’ threatens our liberty as Americans to speak our minds. Strongly agree, 34%, Agree, 37%
America must protect and preserve its White European heritage. Strongly agree, 7%, Agree 24%
Marriage should only be allowed between people of the same race. Strongly agree, 4%, Agree, 6%
People of different races should be free to live wherever they choose. Disagree, 2%
White people are currently under attack in this country. Strongly agree, 11%, Agree 35%
All races should be treated equally. Disagree, 1%
Racial minorities are currently under attack in this country. Strongly disagree, 11%, Disagree 29%
America was founded as an explicitly Christian nation. 18% Strongly agree, 37% agree
Do you feel that generations of slavery and discrimination do or do not make it difficult for Blacks to work their way out of the lower class? Strongly do not, 42%
How important would you say religion is in your own life: Very important, Fairly important, or Not very important? Very important, 56%
great takeaways! & winthrop’s a beautiful campus.
on a related note: kudos 4 your outlook on rallies & your reasoning behind it –
“safety > solidarity > optics” (could be a t-shirt – 2 wear 2 rallies:)
PS – donate button only goes 2 your expired goyfundme campaign.
goyfundme.com gives 1 many worthy choices, but you & occidental dissent deserve direct support.
Winthrop “University”? Is that a real school or one of those online scams?
It’s a school that you’re to dumb to get accepted into (like most colleges)
Should we call you El Chapo…….or El Trapo? AhahHahahaha-HAAAA!
Lol spahn… What’s funnier is the fact that b I actually have a degree…AhahHahahaha-HAAAA!
Actually, considering what a moron you come across as, I find that sad rather than funny. Someone with your reasoning abilities shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a university.
Thank you.
Even if only 5% of whites think how we do, it doesn’t make our position any less correct, or any less worth fighting for. Its about getting our message across and red pilling as many as possible. In the digital age, thats now easier than ever.
We really can’t blame a 19yo for being a bleeding heart compassionista when all her life,
her beliefs have been influenced by sinister forces further back in the chain. Until they hear our side, how does a carefree teenager know?
All the institutions-which I’ve listed countless times-that steer opinion and are controlled or influenced by Jews, have to be totally cleaned out and transformed.
Changing the culture of these institutions and playing our part in the red pilling process are stepping stones in getting many over to our side, thus helping to ultimately get our nation’s back in their correct ownership.
Many in the Right were once Leftards. A stint with them made them the sensible, logial nationalists they are now.
“31% support protecting and preserving White European heritage”
I cannot believe that only 31% of whites support protecting their ancestral heritage. The other 69% deserve every single thing that’s coming to them.
@Snowitey,
Yeah it looks like a low % on paper but 31% really is a hell of a lot of people. Of the 69%, some are perhaps unwilling to state their true position, some just aren’t political while others just need to be educated. Others may become Alt-Right quite readily due to circumstances or an incident involving a non-white that pisses them off such as a mugging or rape close to home. For many whites, it wouldn’t take much. I can see the percentage only increasing from here on in as things get worse for us, and the mainstream media loses the ability to hide it from us.
According to TMZ the rumors about El Trapo and Danica Roem are true. Upon hearing the news Terri “Onceler” DiCastiglione has been readmitted to Trenton State Hospital and placed on suicide watch.
Obsessed, like all guinea…males.
Want to know how the Winthrop respondents really feel about race? Find one of the Sorority/Fraternity parties on a Friday night and go observes the behavior. 100% chance of nigger music blaring and white girls twerking like sheboons. There will be “Feel the Bern” or “I’m with Her- 2016” stickers on the cars throughout the campus and SWJ flyers on the tack board in the Library. Every single campus in America has been infiltrated by subversive Communists. Every. Single. One. They will need to be plucked out by the root.
You’re just mad because you can’t get into one
I took away the disastrous truths in this study as well. Apparently black lives matter and antifa get more support than white nationalism. Who cares about the Confederate symbols in this poll because at the rate they are ripping them down there won’t be anything left in a couple decades. We MUST destroy the stigmas of National Socialism and wake whitey up! I love Confederate symbols and monuments but those things are not influencing the political views of younger people.
It’s important to note that they framed the question as “do you support white supremacy”
@southern identitarian
Do you think it would have drastically improved if they asked it differently?
Yes, this movement needs “strong, masculine religious Christian messages”! (Paganism is not the answer.) A lack of morality is a huge problem in this country. Men, we need you to lift high the banner of holiness and righteousness. You will be the ones to purge our land of the degenerates and their filth.