13% of Democrats agree with Trump on that.

What the actual fuck?

  • elrik@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    I searched for the actual question text and found:

    Q19a. The immigrants entering the country illegally today are poisoning the blood of our country.

    The split was 14% completely agreed and 20% mostly agreed.

    I’m not as surprised by the results as the headline would have suggested because of the use of the word illegally. It biases the question negatively.

    The 20% who mostly agreed may have agreed with some negative connotation surrounding illegal immigration while ignoring the racism of “poisoning the blood.” In other words, if I put myself in the shoes of someone who feels strongly about securing the border, I could understand how those respondents would lean towards agree simply because of the use of the word “illegal.”

    To further support this interpretation: In the same survey, more than 40% of respondents favor or strongly favor building a wall along the US-Mexico border.

    Maybe I’m just optimistic that only around an eighth of the country is completely crazy and that is just a less clickbaity title.