Poll: Black-Hispanic relations good

PRINCETON, N.J., July 17 (UPI) -- More blacks and Hispanics than whites believe relations are good between blacks and Hispanics in the United States, a Gallup poll indicates.

Less than half of the white adults polled indicated they thought black-Hispanic relations were good, compared to 60 percent of Hispanics and about two-thirds of blacks surveyed, the Gallup's Minority Rights and Relations poll indicated.

Because of the less-than-positive perspective of whites surveyed, 49 percent of those asked said they thought black-Hispanic were good, while 40 percent perceived them as bad, the Princeton, N.J., polling agency said. Forty-three percent of whites said black-Hispanic relations were bad, compared to 29 percent of blacks and 36 percent of Hispanics.

Results are based on telephone interviews June 5-July 6 with 1,935 adults, including oversamples of blacks and Hispanics weighted to reflect their proportions in the general population. The total sampling has a margin of error of 4 percentage points. The oversamplings have margins of error of 5-6 percentage points.