Tea Party, Fox News Viewers Outliers on Immigration, Islam

[pampango]

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105007

The survey, entitled "What It Means to be American: Attitudes in an Increasingly Diverse America Ten Years after 9/11", found that viewers of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News were significantly less tolerant and more distrustful of Muslims than the general public.

"The generational patterns – young people on the whole are more sympathetic than their elders to both immigration and diversity – suggest that over the long run, we will resolve these arguments, as we have in the past, in favour of inclusion. While a majority of self-described Democrats, Independents, and those who most trust CNN and public television for their news disagreed with the proposition, about two-thirds of Republicans, Tea Party followers, and respondents who most trust Fox News as a news source said they believed Islamic values were indeed at odds with American values.

On immigration, a large majority (62 percent) said they favoured a comprehensive approach to reform that combines enforcement of existing laws with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants over one that featured strict enforcement and deportation only (36 percent).

While nearly three in four Democrats and more than six in 10 Independents favoured the first approach, Republicans were nearly evenly divided and nearly six in 10 Tea Party sympathisers favoured the strict enforcement option. Here, too, the partisan differences were significant. While 62 percent of Democrats and 56 percent of Independents saw immigration positively, 55 percent and 56 percent of Republicans and Tea Party sympathisers, respectively, said it threatened traditional values.

Nearly half (46 percent) of all respondents said they believe discrimination against whites has become as big a problem in the society as discrimination against blacks and other minorities. ... Six in 10 Republicans and Tea Party sympathisers, compared to only 36 percent of Democrats, also agreed. But the biggest gap in perception was between respondents who most trusted public television and those who rely on Fox News, according to the Survey. Nearly seven in 10 Fox News viewers (68 percent) said they agreed that discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as that against minorities, while less than one in four (23 percent) who favour public television agreed.

[OHdem10]

1. Fear of Browing of America is at the very core in TP. When they

see a Black or brown skinned person, the see a threat
to their very being and social status. The Darked skinned
people will be taking their places on City Council, Legislature
etc.

[hifiguy]

2. The teatalitarians are just the same old

crackpot reactionary right represented by the Birchers and militia movements packaged up with the fundy loons. There is nothing new about it except the label. The far right remains the scum atop the US swimming pool, as it always has been. But now they have billionaires supplying the cash and organizational tools.

[Dawson Leery]

3. There is a reason it's called the teaklan.

They are the same reactionaries who are willing to turn violent to turn back progress and deny anyone who is not them, any and all rights.

[SpartanDem]

4. The only good thing you can say is that like in past

as the older generation dies off we'll get over these prejudices just as we did in the past.