President Trump's approval ratings in the South have ticked upward, with 54% of voters giving a thumbs-up to the way he's handling his job, according to a new NBC News/SurveyMonkey online poll.
The approval ratings swung wildly in some individual states in the polling. Trump has a 60 percent approval rating in Alabama, but just 48 percent approval in neighboring Georgia, the polls showed.
The polling was conducted between July 2 and July 16, so much of it was completed before Trump's tweets on July 14 calling forto"go back" to the"totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." The error estimate for registered voters is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points. The survey also found slightly more support for former Vice President Joe Biden in the South than the rest of the country. Twenty-seven percent of Democrats said if the primary or caucus was being held in their state today, they'd vote for Biden vs.The second most popular candidates were Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Both had 14 percent of respondents say they'd vote for them. Thirteen percent said they'd vote for Sen.
Southerners said they were happy with the current state of the economy, with 72 percent of respondents saying the national economy is"very good" or"fairly good." More Southerners also said they think race relations in their states are improving. Twenty percent said they're getting better, compared to 14 percent in September. The number of people who said relations are getting worse dropped significantly, from 44 percent in September to 34 percent in the current poll. A plurality of respondents, 44 percent, said they're"about the same.
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