Exit polling conducted by The Washington Post last November asked voters nationally if they preferred fixing troubled public schools or going to a voucher system. Opposition to vouchers reaches across party lines. Efforts to implement voucher plans through ballot referenda never spring from a true grassroots movement. These same forces then bankrolled efforts to persuade the public to vote for vouchers. Practically none of the money came from the grassroots.
Minority groups support vouchers.
In Michigan, where voters trounced a voucher referendum 69 percent to 31 percent last November, opposition to voucher actually ran higher in Detroit, which is heavily black. Voters there rejected vouchers 72 percent to 28 percent. In the California vote, no racial group showed majority support for vouchers. Whites opposed the plan 70 percent to 30 percent, blacks by 68 percent to 32 percent, Hispanics by 77 percent to 23 percent and Asians by 66 percent to 34 percent. Vouchers present no constitutional problems.