For Gene
 

Birthers don't care about the birth certificate, their main beef is
that Obama is black and they cannot abide.

And it shows up in the south at a significantly higher percentage than
anywhere else. White bigots.


According to Del Ali of Research 2000, if you excluded those people
from the poll—if you look only at white voters in the South—the number
of people who doubt Obama’s citizenship is higher than the 47 percent
figure that has grabbed headlines today. "There was no deviation in
the number of black, Hispanic, and other voters from one region of the
country to another," Ali told TWI. In the South, like everywhere else,
the vast majority of non-white voters said that Obama was born in the
United States; 97 percent of black voters, 87 percent of Hispanic
voters, and 88 percent of other minorities. The extremely low overall
percentage? That’s due to white Southerners, who dragged down the
average with an extremely high level of doubt about Obama.

So what proportion of Southern whites doubt that Obama is an American
citizen? While Ali did not release the racial breakdowns for the the
South, and cautioned that the margin of error in the smaller sample of
720 people would be larger than the national margin of error (2
percent), the percent of white Southern voters may be higher than 70
percent. More than 30 percent of the people polled in the South were
non-white, and very few of them told pollsters that they had questions
about Obama’s citizenship. In order for white voters to drive the
South’s "don’t know" number to 30 percent and it’s "born outside the
United States" number to 23 percent, as many as three-quarters of
Southern whites told pollsters that they didn’t know where Obama was
born.