RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The vast majority of Triangle residents want the Amazon HQ2 project in a new poll with support 79 percent or higher across all demographics, political affiliation, level of income and education.

But a look inside the numbers shows that non-whites, women, older residents, those lacking a college degree, and Democrats view the project most favorably.

Elon University, in partnership with American City Business Journals, reported Wednesday that “strongly support” or “somewhat support” North Carolina recruiting the project, which promises $5 billion in investment and 50,000 jobs.

While 80 percent of those surveyed are against having to pay higher taxes in order to secure the project, other findings were overwhelmingly positive about HQ2.

In fact, the largest percentage of a group opposed to the project – Independent voters – was a scant 10 percent.

Independents also were the most neutral about HQ2, but only 11 percent.

“In Raleigh, 43 percent of residents ‘strongly support’ Amazon locating its second headquarters there, while 7 percent said they opposed the project,” Elon reported.

“Forty-nine percent said their region is ‘definitely’ the best choice among the contenders, from the perspective of Amazon executives, while 12 percent said probably or definitely not.

“As for local awareness, 25 percent said they have heard ‘a lot’ about their region’s efforts to land the project while 16 percent said they have heard ‘none at all.'”

Breaking down the numbers

Here are the poll results as broken out by Elon and the “strongly support” or “somewhat support” the project:

Gender

Male, 85 percent

Female, 86 percent

Race

Non-white, 91 percent

White, 81 percent

Age

Age 18-49, 83 percent

Age 50+, 87 percent

Income

Income under $50,000, 84 percent

Income $50,000-99,999, 87 percent

Income $100,000+, 85 percent

Education

No college degree, 88 percent

College degree, 82 percent

Political affiliation

Democrats, 90 percent

Republican, 79 percent

Independent, 79 percent

Read more about the poll results online.

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