Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[Rev. Rye]

What percent of Charlottesville citizens are in favor of removal of the statue?  That seems like a number that should probably be known and considered.  The following shows that at least nationally [...]

I'll take "category error" for $500.

You're quoting national statistics for a local opinion. Once more, sloppy thinking.

Yeah. It's not easy to find an actual poll strictly of Charlottesville's residents, especially one that happened before the massive riots. Eventually, I found a poll by a local Charlottesville news outlet, and, well, it's not quite what we'd like to see:

Then again, they point out that anyone around the world can vote in this poll, so it may not necessarily reflect the views of Charlottesville's residents at the time, and I do think it's possible that white supremacists might have artificially inflated their numbers. And, even if we assume it's an accurate view of Charlottesville's views at the time, given the violence that eventually happened because of the racist dickwads who used the statue as an excuse to riot and promote the ideology that made people uncomfortable about it in the first place, I suspect that the results might have changed a bit.