> it's pretty drastic to base your ideology on one poll.
That may be so, but an honest journalist would report both justification and conclusion, not just the latter, and let their readers decide.
> To think one would disregard their real life experiences and all the individuals they have known
If their experiences are negative, disregarding them is celebrated:
The ideal white response to non-white predation came from the Tibbetts family. Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowa college student, was raped and murdered by an illegal alien in 2018. [..] [Her father] emphasized that his daughter would find anyone using her death to criticize illegal immigration as “profoundly racist.” The family was lionized by the press. - https://highlyrespected.substack.com/p/turn-the-other-cheek-...
> take the results of one poll
You think he should base his views on more comprehensive violent crime statistics instead?