Yep. The Tea Party is Still Racist. New Poll:

[Ian David]

New Data on Tea Party Sympathizers
by Tom Schaller @ 11:30 AM
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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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Some conservatives believe there is a systematic attempt to demonize the tea party movement and their supporters. There is probably some truth to that. But in the same vein, aberrant opinions espoused by tea partiers or their sympathizers should neither be ignored nor papered-over.

Parker's study shows much higher levels of intolerance among whites who sympathize with the tea party movement. To be clear, the splits compare those who strongly disapprove or approve of the tea partiers, so the differences reflect those whites with polarized attitudes toward the movement. And the study might be more instructive if it compared compared the tea-partiers views toward those of white conservatives or white Republicans, or differentiated between those who are merely empathetic toward the tea-party movement and those who have actively participated in it. But it's safe to say that those who are sympathetic to the tea party movement do not hold mainstream views on issues related to race and identity politics.

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

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/shadowfax_rulz/status/12186694261


See also:

I went to the Anti-TeaKlan rally today! (dial-up warning)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8149650

[BlooInBloo]

1. Why are you so oversensitive and reverse-racist and can't wait for all the facts to come in?

:P

[cyndensco]

I find the white views of African-Americans, whether tea partiers or not,

depressing.

More than 40% of those polled do not consider us hardworking, intelligent or trustworthy? While I cannot say I am surprised, this is one of those polls I wish I hadn't seen.

[Walk away]

3. That has to be regional. I know some old people around here are..

still living in the stupid past but 40% is an awful number. I am sorry, I feel bad about it.

[HipChick]

4. and where do they collect those view from?..the media

ala FauxNews, Beck, Limpballs, O Reilly - O'Reilly said today as far as he knew, there was no racism in America since 9/11 and that was at a Black Conference..

[Ian David]

6. I blame Soul Plane.

Then again, people were racist BEFORE that movie, weren't they?

[Ian David]

5. I know. It's depressing. n/t

[Ian David]

7. Maybe some of them misunderstood the poll.

Maybe some misunderstood the poll to mean, "Do you think black people work harder than non-black people?"

Depending on how the question was worded, I'd think that could account for 5% of the racist answers.

Still, it sucks.

And on behalf of my fellow melanin-deprived white mutant brethren, I apologize.

[cyndensco]

2. ...

Shit of all my posts to duplicate!!!!