{"id":2265,"date":"2009-07-07T21:45:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T05:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2009-07-08T09:48:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T17:48:45","slug":"class-differences-among-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/class-differences-among-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Class differences among Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was curious about class differences among Republicans. Below the fold is a table created from the GSS<\/a>. I limited the data set to Republicans or Republican-leaning Independents from the years 2004-2008. The numbers in the columns are percentages which fall into a given class.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Lower = No high school to some college<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Higher = Bachelor’s degree or higher <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

 <\/td>\nLower<\/strong><\/td>\nHigher<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moderate<\/strong><\/td>\n32.8<\/td>\n20.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Slightly Conservative <\/strong><\/td>\n20<\/td>\n28.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conservative<\/strong><\/td>\n30.8<\/td>\n37.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Extremely Conservative <\/strong><\/td>\n6.9<\/td>\n7.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Protestant<\/strong><\/td>\n61.8<\/td>\n57.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catholic<\/strong><\/td>\n23.1<\/td>\n26.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jewish<\/strong><\/td>\n0.7<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
No Religion <\/strong><\/td>\n9.3<\/td>\n9.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bible is Word of God <\/strong><\/td>\n40.9<\/td>\n24.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Inspired Word <\/strong><\/td>\n46.5<\/td>\n61.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Book of Fables <\/strong><\/td>\n11.7<\/td>\n12.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fundamentalist<\/strong><\/td>\n36.3<\/td>\n22.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Definitely or probably true humans evolved from animals <\/strong><\/td>\n29.7<\/td>\n47.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Strongly agree or agree that free trade leads to better products <\/strong><\/td>\n59.3<\/td>\n67.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taxes on low income people too high, or much too high <\/strong><\/td>\n54.7<\/td>\n36.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taxes on middle income people too high, or much too high <\/strong><\/td>\n55.8<\/td>\n55.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taxes on upper income people too high, or much too high <\/strong><\/td>\n27.3<\/td>\n37.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woman has right to abortion for any reason <\/strong><\/td>\n29.2<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Homosexual relations always wrong <\/strong><\/td>\n69.6<\/td>\n54.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Agree or agree strongly that American should limit import of foreign probucls <\/strong><\/td>\n58.3<\/td>\n53.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Owns gun in home <\/strong><\/td>\n48.2<\/td>\n43.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Semi-automatic rifles be limited to military <\/strong><\/td>\n78.3<\/td>\n84.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Does not hunt, spouse does not hunt <\/strong><\/td>\n73.2<\/td>\n80.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Government spending too much money on welfare <\/strong><\/td>\n53.9<\/td>\n53.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allow racist to speak <\/strong><\/td>\n59.1<\/td>\n72.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allow Communist to speak <\/strong><\/td>\n63.9<\/td>\n87.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Allow anti-Religionist to speak <\/strong><\/td>\n74.5<\/td>\n91.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
America largely or greatly benefits from NAFTA <\/strong><\/td>\n11.3<\/td>\n25.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Approve banning of prayer in public schools <\/strong><\/td>\n34.6<\/td>\n46.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spend more or much more on defense <\/strong><\/td>\n53.5<\/td>\n41.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spend more or much more on unemployment benefits <\/strong><\/td>\n22<\/td>\n11.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spend more or much more on environment <\/strong><\/td>\n44.9<\/td>\n33.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spend more or much more on health <\/strong><\/td>\n72.8<\/td>\n56.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spend more on culture & the arts <\/strong><\/td>\n11.3<\/td>\n13.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Will not eat genetically modified foods <\/strong><\/td>\n29.7<\/td>\n20.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Know God exists <\/strong><\/td>\n69.8<\/td>\n64.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Support or strongly support racial preference in hiring blacks <\/strong><\/td>\n9.2<\/td>\n6.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Would vote for black president (yes) <\/strong><\/td>\n92.9<\/td>\n98.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Black problems due to discrimination (yes) <\/strong><\/td>\n24.7<\/td>\n17.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hardly any confidence in organized labor <\/strong><\/td>\n32.3<\/td>\n40.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
No miliary service <\/strong><\/td>\n81.9<\/td>\n74.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Owns home <\/strong><\/td>\n74.9<\/td>\n89.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Family income above $25,000 <\/strong><\/td>\n70.2<\/td>\n86.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Strongly agree or agree that better if man work and woman tend home <\/strong><\/td>\n46<\/td>\n31.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Would vote for woman president (yes) <\/strong><\/td>\n89.6<\/td>\n95.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pornography should be illegal to all (yes) <\/strong><\/td>\n46.4<\/td>\n40.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sex before marriage always wrong <\/strong><\/td>\n32.7<\/td>\n33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Identify as middle class <\/strong><\/td>\n47.6<\/td>\n73.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Identify as upper class <\/strong><\/td>\n2.1<\/td>\n8.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Favors death penalty for murder (yes) <\/strong><\/td>\n81<\/td>\n79.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Government should not take any action to reduce income differences <\/strong><\/td>\n19.1<\/td>\n25.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Federal income tax too high <\/strong><\/td>\n59.5<\/td>\n56.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Too much money spent on environment <\/strong><\/td>\n12.1<\/td>\n12.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Too much money spent on asssistance to blacks <\/strong><\/td>\n33<\/td>\n28.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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