11.   The candidates were asked whether the Republican Party should support flying the Confederate flag over the statehouse, although many minorities say it is divisive and exclusionary.

12.   Other minorities say they, too, have been overlooked.

13.   A substantial minority said the federal government should go further and mandate standards for better elections.

14.   But racial profiling is only one of many examples of intolerance that minorities say they continue to confront.

15.   From Paris to London, Stockholm to Milan and Athens to Madrid, minority Muslims say they have to make difficult sacrifices to live in peace.

16.   The minority Tamils say they are subjected to discrimination by the majority Sinhalese who run the government and the military.

17.   The minority Tamils say they are subjected to discrimination by the majority Sinhalese.