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President Obama hasn’t gotten far among Republican voters in Alabama and Mississippi – about half still believe he is Muslim and about 1 in 4 believes his parents’ interracial marriage should have been illegal, a new poll shows.
A substantial number of GOP voters continue to believe interracial marriage should be illegal.
The poll of Mississippi Republicans found that 52% said they believed Obama is a Muslim.
He fared slightly better in Alabama, where 45% said he is a Muslim.
Obama is the son of a white mother and a black father, a marriage that remains objectionable to many Republican voters in two of the last states forced by the Supreme Court to allow interracial marriage.
A few states, including Alabama, kept the laws even though they could no longer be enforced. Alabama finally repealed its law in 2000 through a public referendum, though 40% of the electorate voted in favor of keeping interracial marriage illegal.
The preferred Republican candidate of those opposed to interracial marriage? Newt Gingrich. In Mississippi, Gingrich led Romney among that group 40% to 27%, and held a 38%-27% advantage in Alabama.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politic...mississippi-20120312,0,334348.story?track=rss
