I don't call it the Shithouse State for nothing! And how fitting (and I would assume by the pollster's design): On the same weekend that the new reality series of married couple Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom debuts on E! (first link at bottom), there's word of this new "Public Policy Polling" poll that found that a whopping 46% of Mississippi republicans would like to ban interracial marriages (second link at bottom).
And if that many actually admit having such an ugly opinion, then how much higher must the real number be?!? Indeed, a supermajority of 60% of those same republicans are unable to say that they approve of interracial marriages (40% say they do, while 14% claim to be "unsure," with the aforementioned 46% being opposed).
I wonder what outgoing Mississippi governor and likely GOP presidential candidate Haley Barbour (pictured above in all his white redneck glory) thinks about this issue? I mean what does he honestly think, since he'd obviously say he doesn't oppose interracial marriage (presumably, anyway). Not knowing the redneck, I won't pronounce judgment. But I can guess.
But let's not cast all of the white shadow, for lack of a better phrase, upon the deranged right-wingers. I have little doubt that plenty (if not as many) white redneck Mississippi democrat party members also oppose interracial marriage. This is a former bastion of the Klu Klux Klan, after all, which was historically very entrenched with the democrat party in the Deep South (are you supposed to capitalize that phrase, BTW? I'd actually prefer not to).
Someone should tell these backward, backwoods Dixie goofwads that this ain't 1950 anymore. I have to think a race-based ban on marriage would be blatantly unconstitutional and struck down almost immediately (federal courts tend to be like that when it comes to treating people differently based upon race).
Moreover, in this day and age, just what in the hell is an "interracial" marriage? If a person is 1/8 African ancestry, for example, would that mean he/she couldn't marry a WASP? What about Jewish people, who are often referred to by right-wing extremists as being a different "race"? Would the Mississippians lump them into the equation too? What about me? I have a lot of Irish in me, which doesn't exactly fall within the neo-Nazi definition of "racial purity." Does that mean a white guy like me can't marry a white woman?
Good grief, whom could I marry under a Mississippi interracial marriage ban? A farm animal, maybe? Actually, that at least I know is something to which they are most hospitable down in the ol' Hospitality State. A little Animal Love amongst the Magnolias!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1375552/Khloe-Kardashians-husband-Lamar-Odom-My-father-heroin-addict.html
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/08/46-percent-of-mississippi-republicans-want-interracial-marriage/
And if that many actually admit having such an ugly opinion, then how much higher must the real number be?!? Indeed, a supermajority of 60% of those same republicans are unable to say that they approve of interracial marriages (40% say they do, while 14% claim to be "unsure," with the aforementioned 46% being opposed).
I wonder what outgoing Mississippi governor and likely GOP presidential candidate Haley Barbour (pictured above in all his white redneck glory) thinks about this issue? I mean what does he honestly think, since he'd obviously say he doesn't oppose interracial marriage (presumably, anyway). Not knowing the redneck, I won't pronounce judgment. But I can guess.
But let's not cast all of the white shadow, for lack of a better phrase, upon the deranged right-wingers. I have little doubt that plenty (if not as many) white redneck Mississippi democrat party members also oppose interracial marriage. This is a former bastion of the Klu Klux Klan, after all, which was historically very entrenched with the democrat party in the Deep South (are you supposed to capitalize that phrase, BTW? I'd actually prefer not to).
Someone should tell these backward, backwoods Dixie goofwads that this ain't 1950 anymore. I have to think a race-based ban on marriage would be blatantly unconstitutional and struck down almost immediately (federal courts tend to be like that when it comes to treating people differently based upon race).
Moreover, in this day and age, just what in the hell is an "interracial" marriage? If a person is 1/8 African ancestry, for example, would that mean he/she couldn't marry a WASP? What about Jewish people, who are often referred to by right-wing extremists as being a different "race"? Would the Mississippians lump them into the equation too? What about me? I have a lot of Irish in me, which doesn't exactly fall within the neo-Nazi definition of "racial purity." Does that mean a white guy like me can't marry a white woman?
Good grief, whom could I marry under a Mississippi interracial marriage ban? A farm animal, maybe? Actually, that at least I know is something to which they are most hospitable down in the ol' Hospitality State. A little Animal Love amongst the Magnolias!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1375552/Khloe-Kardashians-husband-Lamar-Odom-My-father-heroin-addict.html
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/08/46-percent-of-mississippi-republicans-want-interracial-marriage/
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