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BR 
Here's a study from the University of Washington stating that Tea Party supporters are indeed more motivated by differences in race than those who do not support the Tea Party.
http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/racepolitics.html
Now you and Trumpetman can admit you each were wrong.
Wrong about what?
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BR
I can also get an apology from you, MJ, for believing I wouldn't provide facts to support the claim.
I'll give an apology conditioned on the actual content of what you've provided. I haven't read it yet so I can't say whether you've actually provided anything worth calling a "fact" in support of your claims. As far as I know you Googled "tea party racism study" or some such and found a link that looked like is said what you wanted it to say. In fact doing such a Google search would have revealed this:
WHAT RACISM? STUDY TACKLES TEA PARTY MYTH a small study by a UCLA grad student of the signs found at Tea Party rallies as a measure of, at least, expressed racist attitudes.
And this:
'Assessing the Survey Data on Tea Party “Racism”' which directly analyzes the survey linked by you. Now I haven't read the complete survey you linked to yet, but here what this analysis said:
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The study authors don’t claim that white Tea Partiers have unusually high levels of racism as such, but they do argue that this group has more “racial resentment” than other whites. That charge, however, is poorly supported by the study’s actual data.
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Some of that data simply shows that Tea Partiers hold more conservative views on racial policy issues than do opponents and moderates.
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The strongest evidence of possible racism in the WISER study is the finding that only 35% of committed white Tea Party supporters describe blacks as “hardworking” (compared to 55% of strong opponents), only 45% see them as “intelligent” (compared to 59% of opponents and only 41% view them as “trustworthy” (compared to 57% of Tea Party opponents). The numbers for assessments of Latinos are similar, though slightly more favorable.
This data has limitations. It doesn’t prove that Tea Partiers are unusually likely to view blacks and Latinos negatively, believe that they should be discriminated against, or even that blacks have fewer positive traits than whites. Still, it’s at least plausible to believe that a person who refuses to describe a group as “hardworking,” “trustworthy,” or “intelligent” is prejudiced against them.
That conjecture breaks down, however, once we look at the survey’s data on white Tea Party supporters attitudes towards whites. Only 49% of strong Tea Party supporters describe whites as “hard working” (59% of opponents describe whites that way), 59% characterize whites as “intelligent” (compared to 69% of opponents) and 49% describe whites as “trustworthy” (compared to 72% of opponents).
If refusing to describe a group as “hard working,” “intelligent,” or “trustworthy” is an indication of prejudice or “resentment” against it, then about half of white Tea Party supporters seem to be strongly anti-white. Moreover, white Tea Party supporters would seem to be more anti-white by this measure than are white Tea Party opponents, who are far more likely to attribute the three positive characterizations to whites. It’s reasonable to note that white Tea Party supporters are more likely to ascribe the three positive attributes to whites than to blacks. But the same is also true of Tea Party opponents. For example, 72% of strong opponents describe whites as trustworthy, compared to 57% who describe blacks that way.
And this:
"Is the Tea Party Racist?":
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That's right: if you do not believe that blacks should have gotten more in recent years, then you are harboring racial resentment. Questions such as these are designed to stigmatized conservatism.
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Questions such as these do more to measure political ideology -- including core Tea Party values of self-sufficiency and responsibility -- than "racial resentment."
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The study is indecisive not only because of its small sample size and its limitation to several states, but because it fails to disentangle ideology from racial attitudes.
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The survey also asks whether respondents consider blacks and Hispanics intelligent, hard-working, and trustworthy. Fewer Tea Party "true believers" approved of these characterizations than the "true skeptics." What Parker did not reveal until he was pressed by others, probably because it undercut his conclusion, is that fewer "true believers" approved of these characterizations for all racial categories, including whites. Tea Partiers were more likely to forgo wholesale racial categorizations. When one measures the different rates at which positive stereotypes are applied to whites versus blacks, then Tea Party supporters perform roughly the same as Tea Party critics.
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It is worth remembering that even if a higher percentage of racists were found to participate in the Tea Party movement, and even if some were motivated to participate by racist impulses, in neither case does it follow that the Tea Party is a racist movement. Yet even so, the WISER study does not remotely establish that Tea Partiers are disproportionately racist or driven by "racial paranoia" to participate.
I'm sure you won't provide any facts to support this claim though.
And who's fault is that?!?! 
