Majority says take down ‘that flag’

Gene Policinski
3:10 p.m. CDT July 22, 2015

... A Newseum Institute national survey released over the July 4th weekend shows that a majority of all Americans agree with taking the Confederate battle flag down from display on public buildings, state-issued license tags, and in stores ... The national survey was conducted June 26-28, 2015 ... The .. survey .. with 1,050 adult respondents, .. found that when asked if “government should ban the display of the Confederate flag on any publicly funded structure or flagpole,” 52 percent of whites support taking down the flag, while 85 percent of African-Americans and 69 percent of Hispanics support such a move. Asked if “private companies like Walmart and Amazon were right to say recently that they will stop selling merchandise on which the Confederate flag is displayed,” 57 percent of whites are in support of removing flag products, with 94 percent of African-Americans and 68 percent of Hispanics in support ... Just 18 percent of whites and 31 percent of Hispanics saw it as a symbol of “racial prejudice against African-Americans or others,” compared with 72 percent for African-Americans ...

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