As an interesting aside, various organizations have tried to measure the demographics for Tea Partiers.
Tea Party movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
National (US) Poll * March 24, 2010 * Tea Party Could Hurt GOP In Co - Quinnipiac University – Hamden, Connecticut
The latter links to the results of a national poll that suggests 88% of Tea Partiers are white. A separate CNN poll found that 80% were white. I'm not sure how scientific either of these were.
These may seem like fairly high percentages, but keep in mind that 75% of Americans are white. (Another interesting aside: if you remove the White American subgroup "White Hispanic and Latino Americans," the percentage drops to around 65%.)
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