Why Trump’s SC supporters hate America

A new poll reveals how buried in the past Trump’s supporters in the Church Shooting State actually are: a landslide majority of his supporters wish the South had won the Civil War.

Public Policy Polling is out with a new poll showing Donald Trump with a sizable lead in the South Carolina Republican primary with 35 percent of the vote. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are tied for second with 18 percent apiece, and John Kasich is in fourth at ten percent.

It should come as no surprise that Trump’s lead is built on the backs of racist nostalgics.

AmericaBlog also cites the poll’s executive summary:

Trump’s support in South Carolina is built on a base of voters among whom religious and racial intolerance pervades. Among the beliefs of his supporters:

— 70% think the Confederate flag should still be flying over the State Capital, to only 20% who agree with it being taken down. In fact 38% of Trump voters say they wish the South had won the Civil War to only 24% glad the North won and 38% who aren’t sure. Overall just 36% of Republican primary voters in the state are glad the North emerged victorious to 30% for the South, but Trump’s the only one whose supporters actually wish the South had won.

— By an 80/9 spread, Trump voters support his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States. In fact 31% would support a ban on homosexuals entering the United States as well, something no more than 17% of anyone else’s voters think is a good idea. There’s also 62/23 support among Trump voters for creating a national database of Muslims and 40/36 support for shutting down all the mosques in the United States, something no one else’s voters back. Only 44% of Trump voters think the practice of Islam should even be legal at all in the United States, to 33% who think it should be illegal. To put all the views toward Muslims in context though, 32% of Trump voters continue to believe the policy of Japanese internment during World War II was a good one, compared to only 33% who oppose it and 35% who have no opinion one way or another.

Confederate flag supporters fly their flags across the street from Durant High School, where President Barack Obama will be speaking, in Durant, Okla., Wednesday, July 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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