Alaska Dispatch News poll: Mexico wall

Editor's note: Daily through Jan. 25, ADN will publish poll results showing how Alaskans feel about topics ranging from the Affordable Care Act and President-elect Donald Trump's transition to crime and the opioid crisis. 

One of President-elect Donald Trump's first campaign pledges, to "build a great, great wall" on the border with Mexico, to be paid by Mexico, was to keep out alleged rapists, drug dealers and other problem immigrants who he claimed were clambering to get into the United States.

Now as president-elect, the wall appears to have receded from Trump's top issues. And a recent statewide poll said it's not high on the agenda for most Alaskans, either.

Though Alaskans voted strongly for Trump, the population also includes many immigrants from Mexico and residents who visit Mexico during the cold months. Not surprisingly, residents don't favor a wall on the border.

A public opinion poll conducted last month for Alaska Dispatch News by Ivan Moore's Alaska Survey Research shows Alaskans oppose a border wall, 55.2 percent to 36.8 percent, with 8 percent undecided.

The idea of a wall was most unpopular in rural Alaska, where it was opposed by 68.1 percent of respondents, and most popular in Southcentral Alaska (not counting Anchorage), where it was supported by 52.8 percent. Anchorage residents were lopsided in their opposition, 62.5 percent to 32 percent.

See the full set of questions and cross tabs for this survey question here. The poll was conducted as part of the quarterly Alaska Survey.

The Alaska Survey is a statewide public opinion survey project consisting of 750 interviews with randomly selected Alaskans aged 18+. 500 interviews are conducted on cellphones, 250 on landlines. With the exception of rural Alaska, all numbers for this study are generated randomly onto the set of active Alaska telephone prefixes, with no calling done to lists or phone book records. Survey completions are apportioned appropriately by geographic area in Alaska, and collected data is weighted to make the sample representative of the Alaska population by gender, ethnicity and age, according to latest Census estimates, and also by land/cell phone status. The full sample of 750 (MOE +3.6%) contains a subsample of 624 registered voters (MOE +3.9%).

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What do you think? Do you approve or disapprove of the plan to build a wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico? Why? Keep it civil and on topic and avoid personal attacks.