> Bhaskar, what do you make of the piece by David Campbell and Robert
> Putnam in today's New York Times, "Crashing the Tea Party,"
> http://nyti.ms/pFHk5r which argues that Tea Partiers "are
> overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans,
> they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack
> Obama was president, and they still do."
I read that piece with interest but was hoping for some actual data. They offered no data, and none can be found on their websites. You might consult a piece in the current Jacobin: http://jacobinmag.com/summer-2011/liberals-and-racism/
SA