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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 78. Or consider a person who believes that Blacks are genetically inferior. c. If some people in your community suggested that a book he wrote which said Blacks are inferior should be taken out of your public library, would you favor removing this book, or not?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | don't know | no answer | not remove | remove | skipped on web | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1490 | - | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | - | 55 | 7 | 892 | 545 | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | - | 42 | 5 | 930 | 553 | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1532 | - | - | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | - | 52 | 5 | 935 | 476 | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | - | 86 | 3 | 1048 | 723 | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 1599 | - | - | - | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | - | 47 | 3 | 926 | 497 | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | - | 42 | 4 | 920 | 568 | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 1470 | - | - | - | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | - | 45 | 11 | 1115 | 648 | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 504 | 30 | 2 | 603 | 342 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 504 | 32 | 6 | 669 | 326 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 455 | 37 | 4 | 587 | 289 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 524 | 26 | 4 | 650 | 313 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 531 | 42 | 3 | 691 | 339 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 996 | 57 | 5 | 1313 | 621 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 981 | 66 | 6 | 1228 | 623 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 950 | 76 | 4 | 1184 | 618 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 956 | 62 | 11 | 1169 | 619 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1841 | 23 | 5 | 602 | 294 | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1914 | 13 | - | 594 | 291 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2507 | 33 | 2 | 1305 | 663 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 671 | 35 | 3 | 856 | 458 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 763 | 19 | 5 | 833 | 424 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 666 | 39 | 7 | 828 | 434 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 824 | 25 | 6 | 1077 | 606 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 977 | 34 | 6 | 1206 | 644 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 774 | 24 | 8 | 952 | 590 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 2714 | 2 | 1 | 798 | 503 | 14 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 2380 | 24 | 4 | 677 | 455 | 4 | 3544 |
| Total | 33124 | 1068 | 130 | 24588 | 13462 | 18 | 72390 |
1 remove
2 not remove
NA(d) don't know
NA(i) iap
NA(j) I don't have a job
NA(m) dk, na, iap
NA(n) no answer
NA(p) not imputable
NA(q) not imputable
NA(r) refused
NA(s) skipped on web
NA(u) uncodeable
NA(x) not available in this release
NA(y) not available in this year
NA(z) see codebook