Poll found that 54% of American adults said Confederate monuments ‘should remain in all public spaces’, while 27% called for them to be removedA majority of Americans think Confederate monuments should be preserved in public spaces, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, a view that is at odds with efforts in many cities to remove them. The 18-21 August poll found that 54% of adults said Confederate monuments “should remain in all public spaces”, while 27% said they “should be removed from all public spaces”. Cities across the United States are debating what to do with hundreds of statues, plaques and other monuments to the slave-holding Confederacy. The rally was organized by white nationalists and drew members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists, as well as left-leaning counter-protesters. Another 28% saw the white supremacists as the aggressors and 10% mostly blamed the left-wing counter-protesters.

Source: The Guardian August 22, 2017 00:11 UTC