Discussion: 37 Percent Of Mississippi GOPers Would Back Confederates In Civil War

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Only 37% say for certian they would be succession, I guess that is progress.

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From the 47 percent, of course!

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That figure is also their IQ.

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Further proof we let their traitor ancestors off entirely too easy the last time.

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About whether the next civil war will be about the continuation and expansion of a currently existing system of chattel slavery? Sure, I’ll take that bet.

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Please do. Your ancestors were losers as are you.

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I guess we might be happy that it wasn’t 50% or more.

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Oddly, no Republicans in Mississippi supported the Confederacy in the 1860’s.

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Important to note that essentially the same number would side with the US. The rest were undecided. Treasonous idiots.

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Okay, folks, this is people who voted in the Republican primary. I would be very surprised if the results would be that much different if the poll were conducted among Republican primary voters anywhere.

Repub primary voters are fuckin’ nuts.

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Republicans fly the flag of traitors to America…but Dems won’t call them out.

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The sole reason the GOP are favorites in the south is because of the political ignorance and apathy and racism plain old red necks so prevalent in those states.

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That 37% is called Tea Party Republicans.

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But unfortunately that racial and tribalist mindset doesn’t live on just the southern side of the Mason-Dixon line.

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Thank you for that.

While Robert Kennedy certainly wanted the FBI to be more active in investigating and prosecuting the violence (to say nothing of organized crime which Hoover went so far as to publicly deny the existence of such) being carried out against people within the civil rights movement, Hoover was a throughly racist man, and his power so entrenched and vast that even when the field offices and agents within the FBI wanted to pursue the KKK and go after the people attaching civil rights activists, Hoover made clear within the rank and file that was not what “his” FBI was going to do. As you correctly point out this eventually lead to a major part of COINTELPRO stymying, harassing and investigating those within the civil rights movement instead of the criminal racist thugs attacking civil rights workers and activists. Though Hoover had the FBI looking into anything and anyone who he deemed to be subversive and was already well into blocking and harassing the growing civil rights movement before the Kennedy’s ever came into office.

The day Hoover died should be a day of celebration and a national holiday.

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I’m shocked it was that low. Here in SC, those numbers would be reversed I’d wager. (73% of baggernuts in favor of the CSA).

Meanwhile, I would be volunteering for the US Army despite being overage and 4-F.

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This Southern Democrat can’t like this enough.

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Let me move first.

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The Department of Justice under Bobby Kennedy took an active roll in the investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner’s disappearance and murders.

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Okay. Let them rise up again. But this time we drive them and thern into the Gulf. We will be rid of these rednecks.