Despite a concerted “national movement to change the football team’s moniker,” a new poll by The Washington Post finds that 90 percent of Native American respondents said it “does not bother” them that the NFL’s Washington football franchise is nicknamed the Redskins.
“The results could make it that much harder for anti-name activists’ to pressure team officials, who will almost certainly use the poll as further justification to retain the moniker,” said Post reporters John Woodrow Cox, Scott Clement and Theresa Vargas.
Activists have sometimes compared “redskin” to racial slurs for other ethnic groups.