Mississippi voters

On Thursday Public Policy Polling published results from a poll they had conducted in Mississippi about political issues.The poll focused on republican voters. One of the questions they had asked was if Interracial marriage should be legal. A shockingly high 46% of the people that were polled said that it should be illegal and another 14% stated that they were unsure. To me this was an incredibly high percentage of the voters. Though it is not the first time in recent news that I have heard about a distaste for miscegenation. Last year during the congressional elections it came out that the republican candidate in Westchester NY, Jim Russel, had come written a paper stating his stance against both the Jewish community and miscegenation. Specifically miscegenation in media, like teen movies O and Save the Last Dance. It seems odd to me that in 2010 and 2011 there is such a vocal hatred for interracial couples and marriages to the point where some people think that it should be illegal. It makes you wonder exactly how far America has come in becoming a more racially tolerant country that 46% of republicans in Mississippi believe that interracial marriages should be illegal.