MTSU POLL: One In Six Tennesseans Admit To Telling Racist Jokes About The President
Posted on March 3, 2009 at 11:58 amThe newest poll on state and national issues in Tennessee is out from our friends over at Middle Tennessee State University complete with charts and graphs. Some of the more interesting findings below.
THE LEGISLATURE: “Meanwhile, the proportion of Tennesseans who approve of the state Legislature’s job performance has slid from 39% in the fall to 34%. The last time the Legislature’s approval rating sank this low was in fall 2005 and spring 2006, when Tennesseans were absorbing news of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “Operation Tennessee Waltz” sting that led to the arrests of several legislators on bribery charges….The best predictor of disapproval is frequent newspaper reading.”
RACIST JOKES: “Nearly one in six Tennesseans has told a joke about Barack Obama’s race, and three-fourths say they’ve heard or read at least one, even though only 15 percent of Tennesseans say they would find such a joke funny.”
IRAQ: “Just over half (53 percent) of Tennesseans say sending troops to Iraq was “a mistake,” while 38 percent say the move was not a mistake, and the rest aren’t sure.”
WINE IN GROCERY STORES: “Sixty-two percent of state residents say grocery stores should be allowed to sell wine, while just over a quarter (26%) disagree, and 12% don’t know.”
BREDESEN: “Gov. Phil Bredesen’s approval rating has slipped to 52%, down from 58% in the fall and well below his tenure’s high of 72% in Spring 2004.”
“Among demographic factors, education makes the biggest difference, with under half (45%) of Tennesseans without a college degree expressing approval of Bredesen compared with nearly two-thirds (64%) of those with a college degree.”
STATE INCOME TAX: When asked to choose between the two statements: “Tennessee should amend its constitution to forbid the state from ever introducing a tax on personal income” and “Tennessee should introduce a tax on personal income to lower sales taxes and eliminate taxes on groceries,” 46% of Tennesseans support constitutionally banning a state income tax, and 40% support introducing a state income tax with cuts in sales and food taxes.
ABORTION: A majority of Tennesseans (52%) say abortion “should be legal under some circumstances, but not others.” Smaller percentages say either that abortion should be illegal under all circumstances (25%) or legal under all circumstances (19%).
OBAMA: Fifty-three percent of Tennesseans say that they approve of how President Barack Obama has done his job so far, and only 27% of Tennesseans disapprove. In the 2008 election, 57% of Tennessee voters cast their ballots for Obama’s Republican rival, John McCain, while only 42% voted for Obama
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13 Responses to “MTSU POLL: One In Six Tennesseans Admit To Telling Racist Jokes About The President”
[...] a new poll, Middle Tennessee State University finds that “nearly one in six Tennesseans has told a joke about Barack Obama’s race, and three-fourths say they’ve heard or read at least one.” The same poll found, however, [...]
Consider the source. Does this surprise anyone? Low information voters………
Totally not shocked. This state consistently votes against their better interest for the sake of the GOP. I am proud to say that I NO LONGER live in that state.
What do you expect from the Tennessee(Beverly) Hillbillies
[...] “Nearly one in six Tennesseans has told a joke about Barack Obama’s race, and three-fourths say they’ve heard or read at least one, even though only 15 percent of Tennesseans say they would find such a joke funny.” Ouch. [Post Politics] [...]
[...] Yeeeehaaaaaa: RACIST JOKES: “Nearly one in six Tennesseans has told a joke about Barack Obama’s race, and three-fourths say they’ve heard or read at least one, even though only 15 percent of Tennesseans say they would find such a joke funny.” [...]
1 in 6 residents of Tennessee have told jokes about Obama’s race but just 15% of the same residents say those jokes are funny. There’s a 1 to 2 percent overlap there who like to tell unfunny jokes, right?
[...] Kleinheider of Post Politics reports that: [...]
Highly curious and skeptical of the way this study was conducted. Though I am not happy with the racial history of this state and this country, I feel content to live in a state that doesn’t kowtow to a nationalistic socialist agenda.
[...] Kleinheider highlights some poll results that, among many other things, show that one in six Tennesseans admit to making [...]
I am suprised it is that low.
But you have to rememember 1 in 6 Tennesseans are Latino, and they have better judgment than whites.
I have heard African Americans make race based jokes about Obama. So how many of those are “Hillbillies” or “RedNecks” And how many of those are the included in that 1 in 6?
Racism is in the eye of the beholder.
1 in 6 tell jokes… that’s ok, I’ll tell enough to make up for the other 5.
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TNVolunteer73 writes
May 29th, 2009 6:20 pm