Figure 2: Affirmative action for blacks
The 2003 Values Survey series reveals a similar disparity on racially charged questions. For example, on the issue of affirmative action programs, 55% of blacks, but only 24% of whites, offered support—although that cleavage has narrowed substantially from a 50-point differential in 1988.
Figure 2: Affirmative action  | for blacks  | 70  | 65 68  | 65  | 61 62  | 62  | 60  | 56 55  | W hite  | Black  | 26 29:29 25  | 26  | 26  | 25  | 18 20 23 17  | 19 24  | 17  | 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003  | 2003 Pew Values Trends 