ron rappaport, william and mary. bishop had a really adjusting point on this. the oecd countries, americans were the most likely to talk about politics. there were the least likely to talk about politics with people with whom they disagreed. that follows up with what you guys were saying. that is bill bishop, eight years ago, or whenever he wrote the book. >> ron, as usual, jumped ahead of me while still sitting down. i am paul beck, from ohio state university. the comment is, we have done national surveys in this country and 20 other countries around the world, asking about discussion networks. americans are the ones most likely to talk only to people they agree with, and that has increased over time. americans are more polarized than people in any of these other societies, along the lines the panel has, i think very nicely, commented on. my question to joel, your result that whites who live in the most diverse counties are the most likely to vote republican or be republican. i can see that in cities in the south quite well, and some of the most diverse counti

. >> i am ron rappaport from the college of william and mary. i am the second shortest person in this trio. you know walt stone. this project really comes out of our interest in understanding the tea party at both the mass level and at the activist level. we were struck by what we felt was sort of a gap in the -- there has been little done at the activist level study. most has been going around to different rallies or serving people in a haphazard way. our concern was in having parallel samples of tea party supporters in the mass public as well as republican non-tea party supporters and tea party supporters at the activist level. this study is based really on these two sets of surveys. there are many common questions, that is one of the real strengths but we are able to compare them activists to the mass base. one of our mass survey -- our mass survey is based on this survey -- on a survey. based on 1000 respondents, 700 of them were people who in the 2010 study they did had rated the tea party very positively in 300 had not done so. the survey

. >> i am a ron rappaport from the college of william and mary. rt from the college of william and mary. this comes from our interest in understanding the tea party at both the mass level and activist level. by, whate were struck gap -- what we felt was a gap. what our concern and interest n having parallel samples of tea party supporters in the mass public as well as non- republican tea party supporters and tea party supporters at the activist level. this study is based on these two sets of surveys. there are many common questions. our mass survey is based on a sample done by you go apollo gov/polime;trix. people -- 30000 did not list the tea party is favorably. it was done in 2011 at the beginning of the primary. our lead sample is freedom works is a tea party group which as we found out is the largest tea party membership group in the country. we have a survey of 12,000 of them, which was a nice -- and we did that in december of 2011 and we followed that up in march, april, 2013, re-surveying 2600 of them. there is very little bias even though

ron rappaport, william and mary. bishop had a really adjusting point on this. the oecd countries, americans were the most likely to talk about politics. there were the least likely to talk about politics with people with whom they disagreed. that follows up with what you guys were saying. that is bill bishop, eight years ago, or whenever he wrote the book. >> ron, as usual, jumped ahead of me while still sitting down. i am paul beck, from ohio state university. the comment is, we have done national surveys in this country and 20 other countries around the world, asking about discussion networks. americans are the ones most likely to talk only to people they agree with, and that has increased over time. americans are more polarized than people in any of these other societies, along the lines the panel has, i think very nicely, commented on. my question to joel, your result that whites who live in the most diverse counties are the most likely to vote republican or be republican. i can see that in cities in the south quite well, and some of the most diverse counti