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Originally Posted by Ben E Lou
I mentioned it earlier, and this morning finally saw some numbers from 2014: as of last year, 61% of black people in SC supported the removal of that flag. (In a poll taken a good while back, that number was virtually the same.) As monolithic as black voters in SC are in terms of voting for the Democratic Party, that number is stunningly low. It's fairly obvious to anyone actually paying attention to the details that this is an issue that's far more complex than the simplistic broad brush with which it's being painted by outsiders.
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I'd think that African-American allegiance to a culture that enslaved and segregated them is a symptom of the problem. (support of the latter, as ISiddiqui said earlier, is the reason the flag is still so prominent today). Hell, it's weird to me to see you so buddy-buddy with JIMGA here considering some of his expressed attitudes. But I also know I don't understand all the different factors at play.