Now we have all these trump supporters telling blacks how we should vote republican and how blacks voting democrats are slaves on a plantation. That the democratic party is the party of racism and all that. But:
Nearly 20% of Trump Fans Think Freeing the Slaves Was a Bad Idea
By Daniel White
February 24, 2016
Donald Trump appears to have
high levels of support among the nation’s intolerant population, according to a New York
Times deep dive into polling data.
The Times found that nearly 20% of Trump supporters did not approve of freeing the slaves, according to a January YouGov/Economist poll that asked respondents if they supported or disapproved of “the executive order that freed all slaves in the states that were in rebellion against the federal government”—Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
Nearly 20% of Trump Fans Think Freeing the Slaves Was a Bad Idea
Exit Poll Says 20 Percent of Trump Supporters are Pro-Slavery?
An article in the New York Times' 'The Upshot' maintained one in five Trump supporters opposed freeing slaves after the Civil War.
Kim LaCapria
Published 24 February 2016
By combining those who “disapproved strongly” and “disapproved somewhat” of the
Emancipation Proclamation, we reached a figure of
20 percent for
supporters of
Donald Trump, higher than any other candidate. Both Cruz and Huckabee’s
supporters polled at 15 percent, and Bush’s at 12 percent.
Exit Poll Says 20 Percent of Trump Supporters are Pro-Slavery?
Notice that it was not just trump supporters who felt this way. We see other groups of REPUBLICANS with this attitude. And don't try that those aren't big numbers argument. The reality of now is that no one should be thinking that freeing slaves was a bad idea.