Southerners and Iraq

This Nation magazine online headline stood out this morning: The South Changes Course.

The item reports on an Institute for Southern Studies and the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University poll released earlier this month.

It found:

57% of Southerners believe the U.S. "should have stayed out of Iraq," compared to 44% who think the U.S. "did the right thing" by taking military action. Nationally, 58% of the public believes the U.S. should have stayed out and 43% now agree with military action.

Not surprising considering the significant share of Southern soldiers fighting and dying in Iraq.