More than HALF of Republicans believe the U.S. is heading towards another civil war

A new poll shows 44 percent of Americans believe the nation is headed toward another civil war – with a majority of Republicans believing it will happen.

The data comes in a new poll by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which also found support for the ‘Great Replacement Theory’ referenced by the shooter who opened fire in a Buffalo supermarket last month.

A total of 44 percent agree with the statement that the nation ‘seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,’ according to the poll. That includes 53 per cent of Republicans and 39 per cent of Democrats. 

The poll by the group and Tulchin Research came in late April, before the horrific mass shooting in Buffalo, where the assailant’s digital postings were filled with conspiratorial and racist ramblings.

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53 per cent of Republicans said the nation seemed to be heading toward civil war in a new poll, with 39 per cent of Democrats agreeing with the statement

A total of 44 percent agree with the statement that the nation ‘seems headed toward a civil war in the near future,’ according to a poll by the Souther Poverty Law Center

In another concerning statistic, about one in five said they at least somewhat approved of assassinating a politician whom they believed was ‘harming the country or our democracy.’

A year after a mob of Donald Trump supporters breached police barricades at the Capitol, Republicans were more likely to agree that ‘some violence may be necessary to get the country back on track.’ 

The figure included 44 per cent of young Democratic men and 40 per cent of young Republican women, the Washington Times reported.   

The poll of 1,500 was taken in late April, after a shooter killed 10 people in a supermarket frequented by black customers

A slight majority of Republicans believed the nation was headed toward civil war

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President Joe Biden’s approval numbers have hovered in the 40s, with a sizable number of Republicans buying into Donald Trump’s claims of 2020 election fraud which were tossed out of courts

 Nearly seven in ten agreed that left wing politicians were deliberately driving economic changes to gain power by ‘replacing more conservative white voters’ – terminology that suggests people are being ‘replaced’ by non-white voters coming into the country. 

‘What we found was a great deal of hostility for people on the other side of the political aisle,’ according to SPLC. ‘A majority of both Republicans and Democrats believe their political opponents pose a threat to the country and want to harm their political opponents. That kind of animosity could fuel partisan violence.’