A new poll found that a majority of voters agree with the Supreme Court's decision to ban affirmative action in higher education.
The poll from ABC News/Ipsos found that 52% of voters support the 6-3 ruling to limit the use of race as a factor in college admissions, with only 32% disagreeing. The results were further split along racial lines; 60% of white and 58% of Asian Americans supported the decision, while Hispanics were split 40/40 on the issue. Black Americans were the only group to have a majority disprove, at 52%.
The decision on affirmative action was also found to be the most popular of the Supreme Court's three big recent decisions, the other two being decisions that a website designer did not have to design websites catered to LGBT people and the striking down of the Biden administration's student debt forgiveness program.The poll was conducted among 937 adults, with a margin of error of +/- 3.6 percentage points.
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