Southern Focus Poll, Southern Sample, Spring 1999

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PARTYID Regardless of how you vote, when it comes to national politics, do you usually think of yourself as a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, or what? NOTE: If respondent answered "Republican," he/she was asked STRREP. If respondent answered "Democrat," he/she was aksed STRDEM. If respondent answered "Independent," he/she was asked INDEP. If the respondent answered "Other" or "Don't know/ no answer," he/she was skipped to #55. INDEP, PARTYID, STRDEM, STRREP, and INDEP are merged into PIDRCODE in the datatset.   1) Republican   2) Democrat   3) Independent   4) Other   5) Don't know/No answer

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Republican	266	32.1%	32.1%	-1.02
Democrat	306	36.9%	69%	-.17
Independent	149	18%	87%	.69
Other	45	5.4%	92.4%	1.55
Don't know/No answer	63	7.6%	100%	2.4

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Gender Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24 years old	25 to 44 years old	45 to 64 years old	65 years or older	TOTAL
Republican	25.6% 23	32.3% 111	34.5% 90	33.1% 41	32.4% 265
Democrat	26.7% 24	36.9% 127	40.2% 105	37.9% 47	37.0% 303
Independent	30.0% 27	18.3% 63	13.4% 35	17.7% 22	17.9% 147
Other	4.4% 4	5.8% 20	5.4% 14	2.4% 3	5.0% 41
Don't know/No answer	13.3% 12	6.7% 23	6.5% 17	8.9% 11	7.7% 63
TOTAL	100.0% 90	100.0% 344	100.0% 261	100.0% 124	819

Education (I-EDUC)

	1st-11th grade	12th grade (High school)	Some college (Two year degree)	4 year college graduate	Advanced degree (MA, PHD, LLD, MD)	TOTAL
Republican	26.5% 18	29.0% 72	33.8% 73	32.8% 62	38.6% 39	32.1% 264
Democrat	41.2% 28	37.1% 92	36.6% 79	36.5% 69	36.6% 37	37.1% 305
Independent	14.7% 10	17.3% 43	18.1% 39	20.6% 39	15.8% 16	17.9% 147
Other	7.4% 5	5.2% 13	6.9% 15	4.2% 8	4.0% 4	5.5% 45
Don't know/No answer	10.3% 7	11.3% 28	4.6% 10	5.8% 11	5.0% 5	7.4% 61
TOTAL	100.0% 68	100.0% 248	100.0% 216	100.0% 189	100.0% 101	822

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Republican	36.4% 133	28.7% 133	32.1% 266
Democrat	32.9% 120	40.1% 186	36.9% 306
Independent	18.4% 67	17.7% 82	18.0% 149
Other	4.9% 18	5.8% 27	5.4% 45
Don't know/No answer	7.4% 27	7.8% 36	7.6% 63
TOTAL	100.0% 365	100.0% 464	829

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Some other religion (Specify)	No religion [Not religious/agnostic/atheist]	TOTAL
Republican	36.1% 211	26.8% 34	0.0% 0	25.5% 14	17.1% 6	32.6% 265
Democrat	37.3% 218	33.1% 42	91.7% 11	32.7% 18	25.7% 9	36.6% 298
Independent	15.7% 92	26.0% 33	0.0% 0	18.2% 10	31.4% 11	17.9% 146
Other	4.8% 28	7.9% 10	0.0% 0	5.5% 3	8.6% 3	5.4% 44
Don't know/No answer	6.2% 36	6.3% 8	8.3% 1	18.2% 10	17.1% 6	7.5% 61
TOTAL	100.0% 585	100.0% 127	100.0% 12	100.0% 55	100.0% 35	814