According a recent Pew survey, four out of five Latinos support affirmative action programs, which consider self-identified race in university admissions to increase diversity on college campuses. Support was lower for white respondents—just 55 percent agreed that affirmative action is a good thing, while 84 percent of Black respondents supported the admissions program. 

For every American who opposes affirmative action, there are two Americans who support it. 

While the country's majority supports affirmative action, states' majorities may not. Each state has been given the go-ahead from yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, which decided that states' majorities have the right to decide the fate of programs like affirmative action that were put into place to prevent disenfranchisement of historically oppressed minority populations. Eight states have so far banned affirmative action through constitutional amendments, statues and even executive action. 

Yesterday's ruling upheld a Michigan decision voted on eight years ago to ban affirmative action in college admissions. In the majority decision, the court emphasized that affirmative action was not on trail while states' rights to decide the issue by popular vote was. 

In her longest dissenting opinion during her time in the Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that, "our constitution places limits on what a majority of the people may do." In her dissent, Sotomayor referenced her history with affirmative action at the Ivy Leagues where she graduated, Princeton and Yale Law School.