Favor or Oppose: Requiring Texans to stay at home except for essential activities (April 2020)
category | Total |
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Favor | 77% |
Oppose | 16% |
Don't know/No opinion | 7% |
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Respondents were asked, "Do you favor or oppose the following measures taken by Texas’s state and local governments to address the coronavirus/COVID-19? Requiring Texans to stay at home except for essential activities." Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents were asked whether they consider themselves to be a Democrats, Republicans, independents, other, or not sure. Those who responded that they are independents or "other" were then asked if they lean toward either the Democrats or Republicans. If they indicated that they lean toward one party or the other, they are considered Democrats or Republicans for the purposes of this figure. Only "pure" independents or members of a third party who indicate that they have no preference for Democrats vis-a-vis Republicans are considered independents. Respondents who answered that they are "not sure" for either of the two aforementioned questions are not incorporated into this figure.
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
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Favor | 90% | 64% | 69% |
Oppose | 5% | 19% | 25% |
Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 17% | 6% |
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Respondents were asked, "Do you favor or oppose the following measures taken by Texas’s state and local governments to address the coronavirus/COVID-19? Requiring Texans to stay at home except for essential activities." Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
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Favor | 92% | 87% | 91% |
Oppose | 4% | 6% | 4% |
Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 7% | 5% |
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Respondents were asked, "Do you favor or oppose the following measures taken by Texas’s state and local governments to address the coronavirus/COVID-19? Requiring Texans to stay at home except for essential activities." Party identification is calculated according to the PID7 variable, a seven point scale of party identification.
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
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Favor | 57% | 85% | 72% |
Oppose | 37% | 11% | 22% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 5% | 6% |
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Respondents were asked, "Do you favor or oppose the following measures taken by Texas’s state and local governments to address the coronavirus/COVID-19? Requiring Texans to stay at home except for essential activities." Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
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Favor | 91% | 82% | 66% |
Oppose | 5% | 10% | 26% |
Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 8% | 8% |
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Respondents were asked, "Do you favor or oppose the following measures taken by Texas’s state and local governments to address the coronavirus/COVID-19? Requiring Texans to stay at home except for essential activities." Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
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Favor | 89% | 92% | 90% |
Oppose | 2% | 5% | 7% |
Don't know/No opinion | 9% | 2% | 3% |
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Respondents were asked, "Do you favor or oppose the following measures taken by Texas’s state and local governments to address the coronavirus/COVID-19? Requiring Texans to stay at home except for essential activities." Ideology is measured on a scale of 1-7, with 1 corresponding to "extremely liberal", 7 corresponding to "extremely conservative, and 4 corresponding to "in the middle." For the purposes of this table, respondents who placed themselves at or between points 1 and 3 on the scale are considered "liberal," respondents who placed themselves at point 4 on the scale are considered "moderate," and respondents who placed themselves at or between points 5 and 7 on the scale are considered conservative.
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
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Favor | 67% | 73% | 58% |
Oppose | 21% | 20% | 34% |
Don't know/No opinion | 12% | 6% | 8% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
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Favor | 76% | 76% | 81% |
Oppose | 18% | 13% | 11% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 11% | 8% |
Category | Male | Female |
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Favor | 70% | 83% |
Oppose | 23% | 10% |
Don't know/No opinion | 7% | 7% |
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Respondents were asked, "Do you favor or oppose the following measures taken by Texas’s state and local governments to address the coronavirus/COVID-19? Requiring Texans to stay at home except for essential activities." Community type is based on the following question, " Would you say that you live in an urban, suburban, or rural community?"
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
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Favor | 81% | 78% | 68% |
Oppose | 13% | 15% | 22% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 6% | 10% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
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Favor | 79% | 74% | 76% | 81% |
Oppose | 12% | 16% | 18% | 16% |
Don't know/No opinion | 10% | 9% | 6% | 3% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
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Favor | 73% | 77% | 75% | 79% | 76% | 83% |
Oppose | 21% | 14% | 18% | 14% | 18% | 14% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 9% | 7% | 7% | 7% | 3% |
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Respondents were asked, "Do you favor or oppose the following measures taken by Texas’s state and local governments to address the coronavirus/COVID-19? Requiring Texans to stay at home except for essential activities." Religiosity is calculated according to the IMPORT variable.
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
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Favor | 76% | 72% | 80% | 84% |
Oppose | 17% | 18% | 15% | 11% |
Don't know/No opinion | 7% | 9% | 5% | 5% |
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Respondents were asked, "Do you favor or oppose the following measures taken by Texas’s state and local governments to address the coronavirus/COVID-19? Requiring Texans to stay at home except for essential activities." Fundamentalism is calculated according to the LITERAL variable.
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
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Favor | 72% | 78% | 84% | 69% |
Oppose | 21% | 16% | 10% | 15% |
Don't know/No opinion | 7% | 6% | 6% | 16% |