Shami-Amourae
22nd November 2010, 05:19 PM
This is a lame article, but the findings are kind of funny. In California, this LA Times/USC poll figured out who really cares about the mythical "Global Warming":
Who cares that the world will end if you keep breathing out the poisonous Carbon Dioxide? Guess who is actually working?
Asians: 46%
Blacks: ?% (Black people don't live in California anymore)
Latinos: 50%
Whites: 27%
Story posted 2010.11.20 at 06:34 AM PST
California's Latino and Asian voters are significantly more concerned about core environmental issues, including global warming, air pollution and contamination of soil and water, than white voters, according to the latest Los Angeles Times/USC poll.
For example, 50% of Latinos and 46% of Asians who responded to the poll said they personally worry a great deal about global warming, compared with 27% of whites. Two-thirds of Latinos and 51% of Asians polled said they worry a great deal about air pollution, compared with 31% of whites. FOR THE RECORD:
Times/USC poll: An article in the Nov. 20 LATExtra section about a Los Angeles Times/USC poll of Latino and Asian voters' views on environmental issues identified the Southern California director of the California League of Conservation Voters as David Smallwood. His name is David Allgood. —
Similarly, 85% of Latinos and 79% of Asians said they worry a great or a fair amount about contamination of soil and water by toxic waste, compared with 71% of whites.
The poll surveyed 1,689 adults by telephone. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
"Latinos and Asians are far more likely to be registered as Democrats than whites, and Democrats hold these views more closely," said Peyton Craighill, who supervised the poll.
Beyond that, their feelings reflect a fact of life in California: "Environmental hazards are a part of the everyday lives of Asian American and Latino voters who are disproportionately represented in locations with high levels of pollution and contaminants," said Jane Junn, a professor of political science at USC and research director of the poll.
"While these results may at first seem surprising, this survey by the L.A. Times and USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences allowed voters to answer questions in their native languages — Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Korean," she added. "And a large number of Asian American and Latino voters were interviewed in order to increase the reliability of the findings."
More continued here:
http://mobile.latimes.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=294&nid=29366893&cid=16677&scid=1854&ith=4&title=Top+Stories
Don't forget, I'm racist for analyzing this, but these people aren't, because they're Liberal:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/22/922464/-Poll:-Eco-problems-worry-Latinos,-Asians-more-than-whites
But it's a misperception based, in part, on the fact that African Americans Latinos, Asian Americans and American Indians are more likely to see what many whites call environmental issues as issues of health, community, economy, land access, indigenous rights and human rights.
...or this one:
Who cares that the world will end if you keep breathing out the poisonous Carbon Dioxide? Guess who is actually working?
Asians: 46%
Blacks: ?% (Black people don't live in California anymore)
Latinos: 50%
Whites: 27%
Story posted 2010.11.20 at 06:34 AM PST
California's Latino and Asian voters are significantly more concerned about core environmental issues, including global warming, air pollution and contamination of soil and water, than white voters, according to the latest Los Angeles Times/USC poll.
For example, 50% of Latinos and 46% of Asians who responded to the poll said they personally worry a great deal about global warming, compared with 27% of whites. Two-thirds of Latinos and 51% of Asians polled said they worry a great deal about air pollution, compared with 31% of whites. FOR THE RECORD:
Times/USC poll: An article in the Nov. 20 LATExtra section about a Los Angeles Times/USC poll of Latino and Asian voters' views on environmental issues identified the Southern California director of the California League of Conservation Voters as David Smallwood. His name is David Allgood. —
Similarly, 85% of Latinos and 79% of Asians said they worry a great or a fair amount about contamination of soil and water by toxic waste, compared with 71% of whites.
The poll surveyed 1,689 adults by telephone. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
"Latinos and Asians are far more likely to be registered as Democrats than whites, and Democrats hold these views more closely," said Peyton Craighill, who supervised the poll.
Beyond that, their feelings reflect a fact of life in California: "Environmental hazards are a part of the everyday lives of Asian American and Latino voters who are disproportionately represented in locations with high levels of pollution and contaminants," said Jane Junn, a professor of political science at USC and research director of the poll.
"While these results may at first seem surprising, this survey by the L.A. Times and USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences allowed voters to answer questions in their native languages — Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Korean," she added. "And a large number of Asian American and Latino voters were interviewed in order to increase the reliability of the findings."
More continued here:
http://mobile.latimes.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=294&nid=29366893&cid=16677&scid=1854&ith=4&title=Top+Stories
Don't forget, I'm racist for analyzing this, but these people aren't, because they're Liberal:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/22/922464/-Poll:-Eco-problems-worry-Latinos,-Asians-more-than-whites
But it's a misperception based, in part, on the fact that African Americans Latinos, Asian Americans and American Indians are more likely to see what many whites call environmental issues as issues of health, community, economy, land access, indigenous rights and human rights.
...or this one: