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One of the most interesting findings from the poll that results from us being able to
do the south/non-south comparison is that African-Americans most strongly identify as
southern. Well, it's...it's somewhat shocking because it throws on its head the whole wide
notion that southern is somehow white or that it's still somehow connected to this confederate
ideology because obviously that's not the southern part that African-Americans are self-identifying
with. And so it opens up all kinds of new areas of investigation for historians and
literary scholars to say: "what does this mean that African-Americans feel this strong
identification with this region and how does that have political repercussions?" Is a question
that political scientists are really going to have to dig into at a much deeper level
than they have before.