FiveThirtyEight: New Data on Tea Party Sympathizers

[SpartanDem]

Last week, the ongoing debate over what we know about the tea partiers took a new turn, with scores of conservative commentators like The LA Times' Andrew Malcolm and Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds assuring us that a new Gallup poll proves the TPers are not a "fringe" or "racist" group'

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But the Gallup results only confirm that tea partiers are "mainstream" in their demographics, when what really matters are their attitudes. Results released Friday of a new multi-state poll of white voters conducted by the University of Washington's Christopher Parker paint a more complicated picture. The survey asked white respondents about their attitudes toward the tea party movement--and their attitudes toward non-whites, immigrants and homosexuals.

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The charts contained herein show the disparity between whites who strongly approve and disapprove of the tea party movement. In a few cases -- attitudes toward Latinos, for instance -- the differences were small. But only in a few cases: tea party sympathizers believe blacks are less intelligent, hardworking and trustworthy. They appear to be particularly wary of immigrants. And they don't much care for gays, either. (Although note that two-thirds of them support gays in the military, an issue on which policy has long lagged public sentiment.)

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Again, this is a comparison of white attitudes, not differences between whites and non-whites. Which means that avid white tea party sympathizers do not even hold mainstream attitudes among whites. If we included the attitudes of non-whites, the views of white tea party sympathizers would be even more aberrant.

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http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/04/new-data-on-tea-party-sympathizers.html

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Well they got me pegged. I not hardworking, intelligent or trustworthy. nt

[boppers]

4. Are you an AA-Latino gay?

How are you at crop harvesting for below minimum wage?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. Well let's see. Born in Puerto Rico, black father, haven't caught "the gay" yet, but

I think Brad Pitt's kinda sexy. As to your question, I wouldn't even consider it since I'm geneticslly lazy.

[grantcart]

8. You are not scheduled for gay recruitment until after the marriage thing passes.

[Cha]

2. I don't know the other one but I saw what the mediawhore

andrew malcom did to trick his readers in the LA Times.

He cherry picked a pic of President Obama with the troops(just a few of them when he had to reach over a wall and touch a soldier with his fingers) and one with bush where they were all crowding around like they usually do with Pres Obama.

I forgot what snarky words he used but he got the his intended reaction from the comments below from those who were whining about how they missed bush.

So many lying mediawhores spreading the propaganda.

[Enthusiast]

3. Fuck the Tea Party! nt

[ShortnFiery]

5. Oh come on? Save for the organizers, these, mostly ignorant tea party members barely have

a pot to piss in.

We are directing "our righteous anger" in the wrong direction.

Be half as angry with their corporate masters if you honestly wish to see some change in fairness within today's financial world.

The more you LASH OUT at people who have "little to no political power" the more you serve the ruling elite.

Eye on the prize: Dick Armey, et. al., are the people who are responsible for organizing these angry middle-aged and ignorant white people.

The more we hate on the "mostly powerless" then the more we LOOK as petty and small minded as they are.

Stop letting the political elites "Divide and Conquer" the WORKING WAGE EARNING AMERICAN?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. I like that the Teabaggers views aren't that out of step because other white people think we're

stupid and untrustworthy as well.

[Yavin4]

9. So, The People Who Cannot Spell Think That Blacks and Latinos Are Less Intelligent?

Wait, I'm Black. Maybe that should be "Intelergent".