Tea Partiers are more likely than white people generally to believe that ?too much? has been made of the problems facing black people: 52% to 39%,
Of those who strongly disapproved of the Tea Party, 55% agreed with the statement that black people were ?VERY hard working.? Of those who strongly approved of the Tea Party, only 18% agreed with the statement that black people were ?VERY hard working.?
68% of the Tea party ?approvers? believed that if only they would try harder, then black people would be as well off as white people. That number fell by almost half, to 35%, when the ?disapprovers? answered it.
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