South Carolina exit polls in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville and Spartanburg asked voters to decide if “Blacks are getting too demanding in their push for equal rights,” WSPA.com reports.
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Other questions asked on the poll were whether or not Black people work hard enough to advance economically, and are they “hindered by the effects of slavery and discrimination.”
The poll creators said they did not anticipate the backlash.
“It was designed to take advantage of a political moment of Senator Tim Scott’s election as the first African-American from a southern state since reconstruction,” said David Woodard, a political science professor at Clemson University. “It was not designed to be provocative.
“We do this every day. We didn’t think too much about it until we got it out in the field and saw that there was some reaction,” he said.
Watch WSPA report below:
