The Contrarian

Fresh from my spooky drive through portions of the American South, I was somewhat unsurprised to come across a Kos-published poll showing that “Birthers” — those pathetic sods who actually think Obama was born somewhere other than the US — are predominantly Republican and Southern:

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

Yes 77
No 11
Not sure 12

And here’s the geographic breakdown of the wingnuts:

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

Yglesias has a sweet graph created by Brendan Nyhan:

[Via Liquid Sunshine, who somehow has time to read ThinkProgress!]