55% Think Hate Is Growing In America
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Most Americans still believe hate is increasing in this country, and support for tougher prosecution of hate crimes has rebounded from a low reached late last year.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 55% of American Adults believe hate is growing in the United States. Just 23% disagree, while 22% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here .)
The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on April 17-18, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology .