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According to this poll, the "birther" conspiracy story has traction only in the South. We can guess it's mainly white Republicans, & among them mostly the same who believe science classes should teach about the dinosaurs on Noah's Ark. So why is it still being played as a national story? The "news" isn't that Obama might have been born in Kenya: it's that there's a lot of gullible white people in the South so desperate to discredit a black Democratic president because he's black they can't stay focused on his actual policies. & that's not really news, either.

Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not?

Yes 77
No 11
Not sure 12


Yes No Not sure
Dem 93 4 3
Rep 42 28 30
Ind 83 8 9

Northeast 93 4 3
South 47 23 30
Midwest 90 6 4
West 87 7 6