A year ago last April, the Gallup Organization released a poll measuring public opinion on a variety of public policy issues. Respondents were categorized in a variety of ways - by gender, age, region, type of community, and race. Most interesting was the difference between black and white attitudes.
Blacks are 'conservative' by instinct, tradition, and experience.
If only conservatism can bestir itself, we'll start coming home. Both groups strongly supported making English the nation's official language. One group favored a constitutional amendment permitting school prayer by 80 percent to 17 percent. The other favored it by 71 percent to 26 percent. Neither group supported legalizing same-sex marriages.