A majority of Americans believe the Confederate flag, which has come under new fire following the racially charged tragedy in Charleston earlier this month, is a symbol of heritage and not one of hate.
According to a CNN/ORC poll, 57 percent of Americans say that the Confederate flag is a symbol of Southern pride. That’s compared to just 33 percent who feel the flag is a symbol of racism.
When broken down along racial lines, however, it’s apparent that black and white Americans have very different views about the flag.
Among whites, just 28 percent feel that the flag has racial undertones. Seventy-two percent of black Americans, meanwhile, say the flag is racist.
A majority of both black and white Americans (55 percent) say that Confederate flags should be taken down from public property that is not part of a museum. But respondents to the poll stopped far short of supporting social justice warriors’ apparent goal to remove all mentions reminders of Confederate history from public view. Fifty-seven percent oppose redesigning state flags that feature Confederate emblems; 68 percent oppose renaming streets and highways named for Confederate figures; and 71 percent oppose removing tributes to Confederate leaders and soldiers from public property.
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