1. "In a [Mississippi] PPP poll released Thursday, a 46% plurality of registered Republican voters said they thought interracial marriage was not just wrong, but that it should be illegal."
2. "40% said interracial marriage should be legal."
3. "Gov. Haley Barbour, with a home state advantage in Mississippi, also topped PPP's survey of the GOP primary field at 37%, followed by Mike Huckabee at 19%, and Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich at 10%."
4. "The poll also found that voters who thought interracial marriage should be banned liked Barbour, Palin, and Huckabee the most among the slate of potential GOP presidential candidates."
5. "In February, a Gallup poll found that Mississippi was the most conservative state in the nation."
6. "By 1750, all the southern colonies as well as Massachusetts and Pennsylvania made interracial marriages illegal."
7. In 1967, "The Supreme Court concluded that anti-miscegenation laws were racist and had been enacted to perpetuate white supremacy:"
8. "Despite this Supreme Court ruling, such laws remained on the books, although unenforceable, in several states until 2000, when Alabama became the last state to repeal its law against mixed-race marriage."
9. In 2009 "The poll says that 49 percent of Alabamians polled identified themselves as conservative. Alabama was followed by Mississippi, where 48 percent identified themselves as conservative, according to the poll released Aug."
10. "Alabama finally got around to repealing its law against interracial marriage in 2000. That is not a typo. And 40 percent of Alabamians voted to keep the law on the books."
