Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics and Unstandardized Factor Loadings for Variables in the 1990 and 2000 Samples

	Sample 1			Sample 2
Item	M	SD	Loading	M	SD	Loading
Aid to the homeless	0.21	0.29	--	--	--	--
Preferential hiring and promotion	0.79	0.33	--	0.87	0.25	--
Food stamps	0.58	0.31	--	0.62	0.33	--
Social security spending	0.22	0.28	--	0.22	0.29	--
Compensatory affirmative action	--	--	--	0.56	0.44	--
Aid to the poor	--	--	--	0.34	0.34	--
Welfare	--	--	--	0.66	0.35	--

Liberal-conservative identification	0.53	0.21	1.00^a	0.57	0.28	1.00^a
Conservative - liberal thermometer	0.53	0.16	0.89	0.53	0.17	0.64

Political party identification	0.49	0.36	1.00^a	0.51	0.35	1.00^a
Republican - Democrat thermometer	0.53	0.16	0.55	0.50	0.20	0.59

Anti-egalitarianism 1	0.14	0.22	0.39	0.20	0.28	0.46
Anti-egalitarianism 2	0.53	0.34	1.00^a	0.51	0.34	1.00^a
Anti-egalitarianism 3	0.42	0.31	0.82	0.40	0.30	0.73
Anti-egalitarianism 4	0.34	0.30	0.64	0.39	0.32	0.76

Desired government size 1	0.35	0.47	1.00^a	0.44	0.50	1.00^a
Desired government size 2	0.27	0.44	0.59	0.48	0.50	0.76

SR 1	0.55	0.29	0.69	0.66	0.30	0.74
SR 2	0.69	0.29	0.95	0.75	0.28	0.87
SR 3	0.60	0.32	1.00^a	0.60	0.32	1.00^a
SR 4	0.45	0.33	0.73	0.59	0.34	0.95

Factor loading fixed at 1.0.