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<p class=MsoPlainText><a
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<p class=MsoPlainText>University of Washington News<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=xxsmallverdanagray1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>April
7, 2010 | <a
href="http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/categories.asp?view=byCategory#PoliticsandGovernment"><span
style='text-decoration:none'>Politics and Government</span></a> </span></span><br>
<span class=tmediumheadline1><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Survey finds that
racial attitudes influence the tea party movement in battleground states </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='text-decoration:none'>Catherine O'Donnell</span></a> </span></span><span
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<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The tea
party movement has gotten much attention in recent months, but aside from
decrying big government and excessive spending, who are the supporters and what
else do they appear to believe?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>A new University
of Washington survey found that among whites, southerners are 12 percent more
likely to support the tea party than whites in other parts of the U.S., and
that conservatives are 28 percent more likely than liberals to support the
group. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"The
tea party is not just about politics and size of government. The data suggests
it may also be about race,"said Christopher Parker, a UW assistant
professor of political science who directed the survey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>It found
that those who are racially resentful, who believe the U.S. government has done
too much to support blacks, are 36 percent more likely to support the tea party
than those who are not. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Indeed,
strong support for the tea party movement results in a 45 percent decline in
support for health care reform compared with those who oppose the tea party.
"While it's clear that the tea party in one sense is about limited
government, it's also clear from the data that people who want limited
government don't want certain services for certain kinds of people. Those services
include health care," Parker said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>He directed
the Multi-State Survey of Race and Politics, a broad look at race relations and
politics in contemporary America. The survey reached 1,015 residents of Nevada,
Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia and California. All were
battleground states in the 2008 presidential election with the exception of
California, which was included in the survey to represent the West Coast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The survey
found that 30 percent of respondents had never heard of the tea party, but
among those who had, 32 percent strongly approved of it. In that group, 56
percent of Republicans strongly approved, 31 percent of independents strongly
approved and 5 percent of Democrats strongly approved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Among
whites who approved, 35 percent said they believe blacks to be hardworking, 45
percent said they believe them intelligent and 41 percent said they believe
them trustworthy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
Whites who disapprove of President Barack Obama, the survey found, are 55
percent more likely to support the tea party than those who say they approve of
him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>
"Are we in a post-racial society? Our survey indicates a resounding no,"
Parker said. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Conducted
by telephone from Feb. 8 to March 15, the survey reached 494 whites, 380
blacks, 77 Latinos and 64 members of other races. The sampling error margin is
plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. The Washington Institute for the Study of
Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality and the UW Department of Political Science paid
for the survey. It was conducted by the UW's Center for Survey Research.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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