tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060865309044072246.post8618583044042170825..comments2024-03-07T05:18:38.474-05:00Comments on Bread upon the Waters: How Many Blacks Consider Themselves Part of the Tea Party?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060865309044072246.post-26904244864587766422010-04-03T11:01:26.001-04:002010-04-03T11:01:26.001-04:00Vicki,
Thanks for your kind reply. Now I must go ...Vicki,<br /><br />Thanks for your kind reply. Now I must go back to the poll results and learn to read them properly. It's good of you to help me out with this.<br /><br />The results are very interesting, as you say. And they match my personal experience. <br /><br />Yesterday, <a href="http://rubyslippersblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/signs-of-times.html" rel="nofollow">Ruby Slippers</a> posted a video of Dan Henninger of the WSJ talking about the "push back" against the 100-year growth of the federal government. He made it sound inevitable. I found that view hopeful, even though current politics have discredited "hope" as a respectable human emotion. <br /><br />A growing Tea Party constituency across various demographic "boundaries" fits well with that view, I'm thinking.Quite Rightlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06454908849040454661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060865309044072246.post-8485566495447887402010-04-02T10:58:14.291-04:002010-04-02T10:58:14.291-04:00Greetings from Wax-Lip's aunt. :-)
First off,...Greetings from Wax-Lip's aunt. :-)<br /><br />First off, thanks for your kind comments. <br /><br />Re the percentage of Blacks in the Tea Party movement: I don't have access to the raw data, of course, but as I read the poll, the first column in the "Race" category refers to the entire sample (that is, all people polled, including those who said they were members of the Tea Party and those who said they were not). The 77% White, 11% Black numbers are, as you note, close to the demographics of the population of the US on a whole, which indicates the sample was not racially skewed. The second column shows the racial break-down of all the Republicans in the sample. A total of 2% of the Republicans in the sample were Black. (This sounds about right, also. I had read newspaper accounts saying the Republican Party has lost Blacks in recent years, and claiming the total number is now closer to 1%. So, from this poll and from other data, it appears the number of Blacks in the Republican party is somewhere between 1-2%.) The last column in the "Race" category is for those who identified themselves as members of the Tea Party movement. A total of 6% of the Tea Party members in the sample were Black. Verrrrrry intersting, no?<br /><br />Nice blog, by the way!Vickihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06001398198515934268noreply@blogger.com