"Questions, Questions, Questions, Flooding Into The Mind Of ..."

One of Andrew Sullivan's readers writes (& we steal) on the subject of advocates of limited gov't. & their (Possibly racial?) motivations.

Here's a question: what proportion of the people clamoring about 'limited government' at these rallies seem to have no problem with--indeed seem to much support--federal programs that they think benefit them and people like them (Medicare, Social Security, federal spending that provides jobs in their community, such as on defense, etc.), but are rabidly opposed to things that they think will go to people unlike them? I think an answer to that question would go a long way to answering how much of the protest is animated by racism.

Some gasbag on the idiot panel today said you couldn't ask people "Are you a racist?" straight out in a poll. You could start w/ something like this, but we'd bet half the fat 'bagging bastards wouldn't be able to see the similarities, or understand why they were different, either.