Teabagging with Jesus (Part 1)

White Christian teabaggers finally beginning to realize

that the world is multi-cultural—and not liking it one bit.



(BoF reader Travis alerted me to a website run by one of the teabagging groups. It’s an interesting site, and I want to spend some time on it. I came across another site that I want to briefly mention first.)

The whole teabagging movement has had racist overtones from the beginning. Whether they admit it or not, it’s mostly about white Americans feeling like a minority for the first time ever, and they aren’t happy about it. The anti-tax message is merely superficial. They’re actually tapping into some deep-seated frustration that has been brewing for a while. Anti-taxes is just one small part of what they’re pissed off about.

I always like to back up my statements with facts. That previous paragraph contains my impression of the teabaggers that I’ve gotten from the media. I wanted to find out if it’s actually true. I typed “tea party demographics” into Google in an effort to find out. The first site listed is actually called Tea Party Demographics! Heck. Can’t be any easier than that! So I went to the site. It turns out it’s just a tiny teabagging site, no more significant than any other. It has a few interesting things on it, though.

One page shows the demographics of the people who have bothered to fill out their survey. It is very unscientific, and the sample size is too small. Nevertheless, 87% identify themselves as Caucasian.

That same page tells us that 59% are Republican. I would have expected higher. However, it also shows us how these people identify their politics relative to their party as a whole. The majority (84% overall), in every single party, said they “lean right”. Well there’s a freakin’ surprise!

The home page has the results of their survey on who should be their next presidential nominee. The results are:

Nominee No. of Votes Sarah Palin 71 Mitt Romney 41 Newt Gingrich 34 Fred Thompson 17



What a wonderful, inspiring set of candidates they’re fielding there! I thought the teabaggers wanted America to be stronger and regain its place in the world. They can’t do it with anybody on that list (especially the one at the top).

Finally, I love this one statement they proudly make on the home page:

An interesting phenomena that I’ve begun to notice in talking with organizers and event coordinators is how LITTLE trash seems to be left behind at these events.

That’s because they all go home to their trailers.