May 11, 2018

Southerners Supported Lynching!

 
More Southerners opposed anti-lynching laws that any other region.
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Americans' Support for Anti-Lynching Legislation in 1937
Should Congress pass a law making lynching a federal crime?
Yes No
% %
National adults 72 28
Mid-Atlantic 79 21
West Central 78 22
East Central 77 23
New England 75 25
Rocky Mountain 75 25
Pacific Coast 65 35
South 57 43
Gallup, Oct. 30-Nov. 4, 1937                                                        

Where are they now?

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