Those who favor increased taxation of the rich are usually described as
a. Republicans.
b. liberals.
c. activists.
d. conservatives.
e. Taxicrats.
Answer: b
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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.