Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Poll: Majority of NY Voters Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up
A majority of New York voters believe Confederate statues or memorials should stay up, according to a new poll, amid pleas for statues of Southern Civil War icons to be taken down nationwide.
A Siena College poll released Wednesday shows that 59 percent of voters statewide say the Confederate monuments should stay up, while 35 percent say they should be taken down. Majorities of voters in every region of the state support maintaining such statues, with 70 percent of upstaters agreeing that, as Siena phrased it, "like Washington, Jefferson and Columbus, they are part of our country's history and for some, they are a source of pride and a celebration of our culture." . . .