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Media exaggerate Tea Party's sway, data suggests - Yahoo! News
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Smith and Martin note that recent surveys charting the demographic profile of Tea Party supporters have turned up strikingly similar — and unsurprising — results. "In fact, there is a word for what poll after poll depicts as a class of largely white, middle-class, middle-aged voters who are aggrieved: Republicans."
That conclusion tracks the recent geographic breakdown of Tea Party strongholds put together by a PBS project called Patchwork Nation. That study found the highest quotient of Tea Party activists clustered in counties it characterizes as "Boom Town" regions, places that "experienced rapid growth around 2000 — and the worst part of the housing crash that followed." Here is the project's map showing where Tea Party sentiment is strongest:
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