General Social Survey: All Groups Except Asians and Foreign-born Want Fewer Immigrants
By Steve Sailer
06/05/2015
Audacious Epigone points to the always-ongoing General Social Survey asking a sample size of 1,100 in 2014:
“Do you think the number of immigrants to America nowadays should be: 1) Increased a lot, 2) Increased a little, 3) Remain the same as it is, 4) Reduced a little, or 5) Reduced a lot.” …The quotient is derived by subtracting the percentages who would like to see the number of immigrants in the US reduced from the percentages who would like to see it increased, with those wanting it to remain unchanged discounted.
So negative numbers mean the following groups want fewer immigrants to America, positive numbers mean more:
| Partisan affiliation | IEQ |
| Democratic | (17.3) |
| Independent | (22.7) |
| Republican | (42.9) |
| Race | |
| Asian | +25.6 |
| Hispanic | (14.6) |
| Black | (29.0) |
| White | (32.8) |
| Social class | |
| Upper class | (17.3) |
| Middle class | (23.9) |
| Underclass | (32.1) |
| Working class | (34.5) |
| Educational attainment | |
| Bachelor’s degree | (16.5) |
| Master’s degree | (16.8) |
| Did not complete high school | (30.3) |
| High school graduate | (35.1) |
| Some college | (36.0) |
| Birthplace | |
| Foreign-born | +7.0 |
| Born in the US | (35.5) |
| Sex | |
| Male | (23.4) |
| Female | (33.7) |
| Age | |
| 18-29 | (13.1) |
| 30-44 | (30.2) |
| 65+ | (32.1) |
| 45-64 | (33.9) |