This year a flood devastated a small river town  Hollyville, also a river town, responded with an outpouring of aid in which a majority of its residents participated, a proportion that far surpassed that of a few years ago when Hollyville sent aid to victims of a highly publicized earthquake
This year' s circumstances were a reversal of last year' s, when Hollyville itself was the scene of a deadly tornado and so the recipient rather than the supplier of emergency aid
Those who have received aid are more likely to be in favor of government relief programs than are those who have not.