progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white. They are nearly twice as likely as the average to make more than $100,000 a year. They are nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree. And while 12 percent of the overall sample in the study is African-American, only 3 percent of progressive activists are. With the exception of the small tribe of devoted conservatives, progressive activists are the most racially homogeneous group in the country.
If you look at other countries in LatAm or Africa, you don’t see so many rich or wealthy being busybodies trying to set the tone like the PC crowd in the US does.
>With the exception of the small tribe of devoted conservatives
The "small tribe of devoted conservatives" is much, much larger than "progressive activists". Activists in general tend to be richer and better educated and since income corresponds with race, white. That's because if you're poor, you don't have the time or the money to become an activist.
The study itself describes "devoted conservatives" as 6% of the population compared to 8% for "progressive activists".
That said, the actual amount of racially homogeneity described in the study is:
Progressive Activists:
- Eleven percent more likely to be white - 80% V. 69%
– Seven percent more likely to be between ages 18 and 29 - 28% V. 21%
– Twice as likely to have completed college - 59% V. 29%
Devoted Conservatives:
- Nineteen percent more likely to be white - 88% V. 69%
– Fourteen percent more likely to be older than 65 - 34% V. 20% - and much less likely to be born
between 1985 and 2000 - 11% V. 27%
– More likely to come from the South - 45% V. 38%
Sorry I only read the article. I didn't realize that "devoted conservative" refereed to a specific subgroup within the study.
Regardless the study sorted people into groups and then the article attempts to draw conclusions from that sorting that doesn't necessarily follow.
The demographics of the "progressive activists" doesn't say anything about the makeup of people are likely to support policies that could be defined as politically correct--just the makeup of people who are likely to support all progressive policies.
The only thing you can get from the GP's quote is that white people tend to be overrepresented on both extremes of the political spectrum.
