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Well, ever since graduate school I've been interested in how the southern region of the
United States influences the politics of the whole country. Unfortunately most of the analysis
that looks at the South is really based upon national survey samples and those often have
a thousand or maybe fifteen hundred people in them. But when you drill down and try to
look at residents living in the south there maybe 120 or 150 respondents and that is not
a lot when you want to learn about a whole region. If you want to know more about African-Americans
that live in the south or Latinos that live in the south you basically may have 5 to 10
if you are lucky maybe 50. So the Blair-Rockefeller Poll represents a land mark change in our
ability to understand the south and the different voices that are coming from the south. So
we have representative samples of African-Americans in the south and the non-south, representative
samples of Latinos in the south and the non-south and Caucasians in the south and the non-south
as well.