37% of Mississippi Republicans Say They Would Would Back Confederates over United States

[eridani]

Title probably should have been "41% of Mississippians would stay loyal to the US."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/15/1314095/-37-of-Mississippi-Republicans-Say-They-Would-Would-Back-Confederates-over-United-States

When I grew up in the 1960s, in a suburb of St. Louis, I was taught as a kid that the United States won the Civil War against the Confederacy. Not very radical. In second grade, I recall singing, "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah," which I believe is different words put to "John Brown's Body." The North were the "good guys." As I became more politically aware, I reinforced that view with my studies in history. Enslaved African Americans participated in their own liberation by fighting in the war (200,000 troops), by runaways and slave rebellions, and in a variety of resistance methods. Slavery was EVIL. Period.

But I was not from Mississippi:

A new Public Policy Poll found that 37 percent of Republicans who voted in the Mississippi primary runoff election between incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) said they would back the Confederate side if there was another Civil War.
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Among Republicans, 37 percent said they would support the Confederate States of America while 41 percent said they would support the United States. Another 21 percent of Republicans said they weren't sure while 9 percent of Democrats said they weren't sure.