I'm going to read you some policy proposals that are now being discussed in Washington and around the country

I'm going to read you some policy proposals that are now being discussed in Washington and around the country. Please indicate whether you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with each proposal. Reducing the size of the federal government

	Black Population				General Population
	Agree %	Disagree %	D/K %	(N)	Agree %	Disagree %	D/K %	(N)
Total	58	33	9	850	82	13	5	850
Black Hispanic White Other					70 62 85 48	20 28 11 44	10 9 4 7	80 100^H 728 31
Men Women	59 57	33 33	11 16	391 459	86 78	10 17	4 5	408 443
18-25 26-35 36-50 51-64 65+	47 63 60 57 46	45 32 32 31 34	8 5 8 12 21	125 176 268 161 84	59 77 86 94 85	35 16 11 2 11	6 6 4 4 4	85 171 301 172 103
Northeast Midwest South West	59 56 57 62	35 36 32 27	6 8 11 11	169 174 421 85	77 86 79 87	19 10 15 9	4 5 6 3	135 226 323 167
Liberal Moderate Secular conservative Christian conservative	54 63 45 66	37 32 41 28	9 5 14 6	268 268 51 216	68 86 86 87	27 10 10 8	5 4 4 5	204 183 152 278
Democrat Independent Republican	60 50 52	32 32 40	8 18 9	700 59 75	76 82 89	17 7 10	6 10 1	395 91 344
Less than HS HS Graduate Some College/Tech College Degree+	43 58 56 74	39 33 25 32	18 9 8 2	179 278 204 169	63 81 82 89	28 11 16 9	8 8 2 3	98 245 185 316
Less than $15,000 $15-$35,000 $35-$60,000 More than $60,000	37 62 56 77	50 32 37 17	13 6 6 6	130 278 243 110	71 80 85 88	21 15 12 8	8 5 3 4	83 214 284 199