I'm confused about the American Republican party

[eppie]

It really depends on their methodology. Going to the nearby clan rally and tractor pull would skew the results. I'm worried about a representative sample. Then, if there is evidence of racism, I'd want show that it correlates to "being republican" rather than "being white in Alabama". What the poller has done is toss in an incendiary question, and left the surrounding demographic analysis out resulting in what might be an aberration to this sample, or general opinion of "white people in Alabama".

Is PPP biased? You tell me. I researched them. Did you?

What do you think? That in my spare time my hobby is to research american polling agencies that I have never heard of before?
If you have a good reason to believe this poll is enormous bogus, please tell us this. I think everybody is aware of te issues with polling (number of respondents, how to choose respondents etc.) but I can't seem to find any indication that this particular poll was conducted in a wrong way.
So did the results surprise you a lot? And is that the reason why you think this poll is wrong?

And, I would reply that you are exposing yourself to be as much of a bigot as they are. You want to use this poll to paint a picture, whereas the reality is that there are idiots, and savants throughout our culture, some are democrats, and some are republicans.

The picture I want to paint using this poll is that in the southern US states 30 % of republicans think interreacial marriage should be forbidden. And seeing you respond with so much enthousiasm I bet you thnk this is not the case. Again, I don't know the details from this poll but I hae not yet had a reason to believe it is not correct. So if you have info that says otherwise please share it.

I would add that for both parties, the uneducated voters tend to act, and vote selfishly. But, that is their right. We don't like it, but that's democracy.

And here I think you are wrong, i don't tink there is a correlation between education and selfish voting. Also believing in evolution or not has not got anything to do with being selfish.

Also, as an afterthought. You also seem to be indicating that people who believe in God are doing so from a position of ignorance.

Well in 95% of the cases this is true. Most people with higher scientific education are atheist....not all, not even 95 % but at least most of them.
If you you are unaware of the science behind evolution, quantum mechanics or global warming you can be expected to have an educated opinion on these topics.

Smart people, like you, are atheists. Smart people, like you, accept the theory of evolution. Smart people, like you, lean to the left politically. Republicans are not like you, so they must be stupid.

I think most highly educated people still lean to the right politically because of the fact that they have higher salaries and can fight for themselves and their families. So this 'proves' wrong 2 or 3 statements you just made.

However, many prominent intelligent people, such as our democrat president are professed believers in God. Again, you are taking common attributes, such as religiosity, or poorly educated, and creating a caricature of a republican. Whereas to do the same thing for poor southern black Baptists would be reprehensible.

I have problems with any person who is against interracial marriage and so should you.