In a typical ideological self-identification survey, the smallest group of Americans will
a. classify themselves as liberal.
b. classify themselves as conservative.
c. classify themselves as moderate.
d. refuse to classify themselves in any manner.
e. None of the above
Answer: a
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Public Opinion
- According to the text, elites do not define economic problems.
- Delegates to presidential nominating conventions tend to be more ideological than the average voter.
- Populists are liberal on economic issues and conservative on social ones.
- Libertarians are conservative on economic issues and liberal on social ones.
- Pure liberals are more likely to want the government to reduce income inequality.
- Conservatives are more likely to focus on removing the root causes of crime as opposed to addressing the problem by getting tough with offenders.
- Conservatives are more likely to support decriminalization of marijuana.
- The definitions of the terms liberal and conservative began to change around the time of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal.
- In the nineteenth century liberals favored personal and economic liberty.
- People can have an ideology without describing themselves as liberals or conservatives.
- Clinton won the presidency in 1992 and 1996 without carrying the South.
- The South has, on the whole, been less accommodating to business enterprises than other regions.
- A 1998 study found Cuban Americans were more likely to be Republican than Mexican Americans.
- Korean Americans appear to be more liberal than Japanese Americans.
- The text suggests there is evidence that the differences between the views of white and black Americans may be widening.
- The text suggests there is evidence that the differences between the views of white and black Americans may be widening.
- Most whites oppose the use of racial quotas while a majority of blacks support the use of such quotas.
- African Americans are overwhelmingly Democrats.
- In the United States, public opinion is less divided by class than it is in Europe.
- Most blue-collar workers in Great Britain think of themselves as "middle class."
- Today, there is evidence to suggest that college students are more conservative than they were twenty years ago.
- The gender gap is less evident in midterm elections.
- Survey data suggest men and women have similar views on abortion.
- Men have generally been more conservative than women on social issues such as gay rights, gun control, and spending programs for the poor.
- The gender gap is largely explained by the fact that, since the 1960s, women have increasingly become Democrats.