Thread: 20% of Donald Trump voters said slaves should not have been freed after Civil War

By NIKKI SCHWAB, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 22:03 GMT, 24 February 2016 | UPDATED: 23:27 GMT, 24 February 2016

The very strange views of the Trump coalition - how one-fifth think slaves shouldn't have been freed after Civil War and some say the white race is superior

Donald Trump has now won three states in a row and pollsters are shedding more light on the ideology of his voting bloc

Some 20 percent said they didn't think the slave should have been free after the Civil War

Another 70 percent of South Carolina supporters also said they wanted to see the confederate flag still flying at the state capitol

One-third of Trump supporters said they thought gays and lesbians should be banned from entering the United States

With all the 'winning, winning, winning,' Donald Trump has been doing in the last three states that held Republican contests, pollsters have looked more closely at the Trump voting bloc.

YouGov and Public Policy Polling data, assembled since the beginning of the year, has the New York Times suggesting that Trump has 'built a significant part of his coalition of voters on people who are responsive to religious, social and racial intolerance.'

One example that sticks out is a YouGov poll, which found that nearly 20 percent of Trump's voters said the slaves should not have been freed after the Civil War.

Even more, when P.P.P. asked voters if they thought white people represented the superior race, while a majority of Republican primary voters in South Carolina – 78 percent – said no, that number decreased to 69 percent among Trump voters.

in both these surveys, comparison with the other candidates' supporters are important. For instance, only 5 percent of Sen. Marco Rubio's supporters believed that the slaves shouldn't have been freed.

On the question of the white race, the Times noted, 99 percent of Ben Carson's supporters, who were clearly on board with a black candidate, said they disagreed with the idea that whites represented the No.1 race.

Following Carson's people were supporters of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 92 percent who said no, and Sen. Ted Cruz, with 89 percent saying no.

Rubio's supporters were in line with the average at 76 percent.

In another battle that ties in race and the Civil War, 70 percent of Trump supporters in South Carolina, according to P.P.P. would prefer it if the confederate flag was still flying over the state capitol.

Gov. Nikki Haley, who put her weight behind Rubio just days before Saturday's South Carolina primary, and other South Carolina officials, retired the flag last summer after the mass shooting at the Charleston Emanuel A.M.E. Church.

Additionally, 38 percent of those supporters wish the South would have won the Civil War. In comparison, a quarter of Rubio's supporters believe the same thing. The numbers for Kasich and Carson are way down.

Moving a few decades forward, a third of Trump, and Cruz's supporters too, say they believe that Japanese internment was a good thing to do.

About 10 percent of Kasich and Rubio's supporters feel that way too.

After World War II concluded, President Harry Truman ordered the military desegregated, something that Trump supporters said they were against in more robust numbers than the rest of the current crop of GOP candidates.

Turning to more current issues, a third of Trump's backers in South Carolina believe that gays and lesbians should be banned from entering the United States.

That compared to 17 percent who believe in that idea and support Cruz and Rubio and 7 percent who say that's a good idea who support Kasich and Carson.

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When the attack media can't get to Trump, they go after his supporters. The media has become so low and manipulative it is pathetic. In my opinon, it seems they are in a journalistic, using the term loosely for this rag, limbo contest to see who get the lowest.

It's unbelievable that in 2016 such horrible questions are being asked by polling groups.

How low can they go.

Based on what Mitt Romney and Lindsey Graham are trying to do to Trump on his tax returns and what the New York Times columnist suggested be done to Trump's life, there is obviously no low too low for these Trump Haters.

Personally, I'm so opposed to the income tax and so support the FairTax, that I have not thought any political candidate should be asked for their returns or provide them. They file a financial disclosure which is far more than what could ever be justified. To add voluntary release of tax returns is an invasion of privacy, a complex set of documents most taxpayers don't even understand when they file their own, and for people with lots of properties and businesses, there's not a reporter or politician with even brains to understand one page of it.

So I hope Trump bristles and says "NO TAX RETURNS BECAUSE NO ONE VOTING FOR ME CARES ONE HOOT ABOUT THEM, SO WHY PROVIDE PRIVATE PERSONAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION TO THE MEDIA OR OPPONENTS WHO WILL NEVER VOTE FOR ME?"

Notice they did not ask a broader sample of Americans to see what the national average is of Americans that would not have ended slavery. But they had to put that question in for South Carolina of course.

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Judy wrote:

Based on what Mitt Romney and Lindsey Graham are trying to do to Trump on his tax returns and what the New York Times columnist suggested be done to Trump's life, there is obviously no low too low for these Trump Haters.

Sort of like the Cruz haters, heh?

Has the New York Times suggested someone assassinate Cruz because he's winning? Oh wait, he's not winning, never mind.

What are you talking about?

Originally Posted by Judy

Has the New York Times suggested someone assassinate Cruz because he's winning? Oh wait, he's not winning, never mind.

What are you talking about?

You know exactly what I'm talking about.

I've not read or seen anything that attacks Cruz Supporters, not even by people who can't stand Ted Cruz. So no, I have no idea in the world what you're talking about.