Poll: Views Still Differ Sharply by Race: Since the nation’s birth, Americans have discussed race and avoided it, organized neighborhoods and political movements around it, and used it to divide and hurt people even as relations have improved dramatically since the days of slavery, Reconstruction and legal segregation.
Now, in what could be a historic year for a Black presidential candidate, a new Associated Press-Yahoo News poll, conducted with Stanford University, shows just how wide a gap remains between Whites and Blacks.
It shows that a substantial portion of White Americans still harbor negative feelings toward Blacks. It shows that Blacks and Whites disagree tremendously on how much racial prejudice exists, whose fault it is and how much influence Blacks have in politics.
