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Integration PollShows Split AmongWhite PopulationThe white population of the United States is completely split on the question of integration, a major national survey of Negro-white relations reveals. Some 42 percent of the whites want the races kept apart, 48 percent want them brought together and only 10 percent have no opinion.First findings in the survey, made for the Catholic Digest by an independent opinion research firm, show the exact nature of the split in the nation’s thinking on the integration problem.The question asked country by poll-takers suggestions for solving white problem seem to general kinds. One isacross the was, Most the Negro-be of two to keep theWhFFIcVeFFSeacMrIISiRMihe]Throltwo races far apart, the other is to bring them closer together. Which do you think is the better idea—to keep them apart or to bring them together?The answers show how deep the division in our nation really is. Of the Northern whites, only 32 percent want the races kept apart, while 74 percent of Southern whites want them kept separate. To put it the other way, 58 percent of Northern whites are for integration as compared with 17 percent of the Southern whites who favor this move.No matter where the Negro lives, how much education he has, no mutter what his age, income or religion, 90 percent wish the races brought together. Only six percent favor keeping them apart and only four percent have no opinion.The problem is not one of religion, because there is practically no difference in opinion between Catholics and Protestants. Percentages in this area are almost identical with those in the North-South findings. Education, however, makes a greatdifference in attitude. AmongNorthern whites with eight grades or less of schooling, 48 percent favor segregation. But only 16 percent of Northern whites with college educations favor keeping the races apart. Among Southern whites with eight grades or less, 87 percent want segregation while only 54 percent of Southerners with college educations favor it.mtfoimieelCcioiSumBe8:1tncy*HmarbioiccfcirNUHnrtcartlv
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Whitewright Sun
Whitewright, Texas, US
Thu, May 24, 1956
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