[WS:] Point taken, but what makes you think that these 122,256 do not represent a much wider population of GOP supporters? It is certainly consistent with my experience of them - self-selected to be sure. They are not about religion and values, conservative or otherwise - but mostly about liberal-, fag-, spic-, and n-word- bashing. They hate Democrats not because of this or that policy stand - which they often fail to grasp- but because they perceive Democrats as the party of liberals, fags, spics, and n-words. Of course, the more articulate ones know how to hide it under ideological mumbo jumbo, but you do not have to scratch very deep to find a bigot underneath.
Wojtek
^^^^^^^ CB: Santorum's focus on white supremacy, and more specifically anti-Black sentiment, should not be conflated into general "bigotry". White supremacy has played the central role of bigotry in American history and still does, as in Reaganism and the Southern Strategy. The white supremacy (and other forms of bigotry) r the form. The substance is that most of those 122,256 , and to whatever extent they r a representative sample of the whole population in question, r in the 99% ; and appeal to white supremacy is the main way that the 1% divide the 99% in America, the USA.