Thursday, February 01, 2007

Survey: Black youth feel alienated

Chicago Tribune / Seattle Times Feb 1, 2007
Black youth are more conservative when it comes to gay rights, abortion compared to whites. Survye charts show blacks compared to whites, and hispanics, but no Asian figures, though included in survey question (are you c. asian)

Survey website:
http://blackyouthproject.uchicago.edu/surveys/byp.shtml

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58% black
45% hispanic
23% white

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070201/youthstudy.shtml
On social issues, the surveys found that African-American young people are more likely to agree that homosexuality is always wrong (55 percent for blacks, 36 percent for Hispanics and 35 percent for whites). A majority of African-American youth also opposed legalizing same-sex marriages, (58 percent for blacks, 36 percent for Hispanics and 35 percent for whites).

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0702010149feb01,1,2988114.story?coll=chi-newslocalchicago-hed
The survey was geared toward black attitudes and used a random sample of young people of various backgrounds: 635 blacks, 567 whites, 314 Hispanics and 74 of other races

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