This Week in Things We Knew already: Conservatives are White & Old. |
I’ll admit. This post title is a bit misleading. Of course not all people who refer to themselves as “conservatives” are white and old. But according to the latest Gallup poll if you’re a conservative, you’re most likely white and old. Oh, and religious and male…and you suck.*
These findings are based on an aggregate of Gallup Daily tracking data collected thus far in 2010, and encompass interviews with more than 78,000 Republicans nationwide.
As reported on Gallup.com earlier this year, the conservative bloc may be growing in influence in the Republican Party. Whereas 62% of core Republicans called themselves conservative in 2000, the figure has been 70% or higher each year since 2008, including 71% thus far in 2010 (through Sept. 23). That exceeds the 67% Gallup found in 2006 and the 62% in 2002 — the last two midterm election years.
Among Republicans today, conservatives are more likely to be Protestant, much more likely to be religious, and are, on average, older than moderate/liberal Republicans. They also consist more heavily of men, whites, and those living in the South — but the differences here are not as pronounced.
I don’t know what to say about this. This is absolutely the most shocking thing I’ve seen all year! Conservatives being most likely old white men flies directly in the face of everything that Fox News and Glenn Beck tells me! What is a Negro supposed to believe?
*BLANK STARE*
*Gallup doesn’t’ say that old conservative white men suck. I threw that in there. I never claimed this was fair and balanced…
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