This poll was deliberately and admittedly skewed to the rural community. The focus of the poll was to show the "cultural divide" between rural and urban communities. Now, I'm not a statistician, so I'm likely wrong, but if this was the goal, why only poll 303 people from urban areas but poll over a thousand from the rural areas?
While I do believe there's a huge difference of values between rural and urban communities, I don't see how this is a fair or accurate representation.
1070 rural
307 suburban
303 urban
More often than not, the rural community is about personal responsibility, right? Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work. Also, at least while growing up, rural community was majority white.
Of those sampled:
62% white
11% black
15% Hispanic
So we have a deliberate oversampling of rural residents, and an oversampling of white respondents.
On the "poor" question:
"Lack of effort" 49 rural, 42 suburban, 37 urban
"Beyond control" 46 rural, 54 suburban, 56 urban
I'm a bit surprised there isn't more of a difference in the rural answers. 49-46 is much closer than what I thought it would be.
I understand adding the numbers to get the number of Christians v others who responded to the poll, but I am skeptical of how they turned this into who voted for what.
"""The poll showed that 46% of Christians said lack of effort was tied to poverty, compared to just 29% of non-Christians; 53% of white evangelicals tied poverty to lack of effort, with just 41% blaming circumstance."""
The poll did not ask this question from a Christian v non-Christian perspective. The question was divided only by rural v suburban v urban respondents.
Look at Queestion 17 using the link below:
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/pag...ica-poll/2217/
Lack of effort: total = 42 (Rural 49, Sub 42, Urban 37)
Beyond control: total = 53 (Rural 46, Sub 54, Urban 56)
Don't know: total = 4 (Rural 4, Sub 4, Urban 5)
Refused: total = 1 (Rural 1, Sub 1, Urban 2)
Could someone please explain how they translated this and made it into a White Evangelical thing?
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