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Posted: 2017-08-16T12:59:46Z | Updated: 2017-08-16T16:41:35Z

Americans are angry about last weekends white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, disappointed by President Donald Trumps response to it, and largely unsure whether he opposes white nationalism, a HuffPost/YouGov survey shows.

But the poll also paints a more complicated picture of the nations racial views. A significant minority say they view white people as facing serious discrimination. And a quarter admit that they have some sympathy for the political views of those who filled the streets of Charlottesville for the Unite The Right rally, attended by protesters including Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis.

Views across several questions are divided by race in the poll which was taken after Trumps comments Monday but almost entirely before his press conference Tuesday , in which he defended his response to the violent rally. White Americans are more likely than black Americans to perceive whites as facing discrimination and less likely to consider white nationalism a serious threat. White Americans also seem somewhat more likely to be satisfied with Trumps response to the events of last weekend.

But those differences are eclipsed by the gap between Americans who backed Trump in last years presidential election and those who supported his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton .

Below are some of the key findings from the wide-ranging survey.