How could fellow citizens violently enter federal buildings intending to destroy property and possibly harm our leaders?”

We were there a few years ago and were awestruck. A woman in her 60s said, “Shocked, horrified and sad for our country. Nearly four-in-ten adults (37%) expressed a strong negative emotion in response to the riot. Many responses touched on multiple topics, and the categories listed in this analysis are necessarily approximations. The responses of a random half of respondents (2,684 adults) were analyzed. adults, included an open-ended question asking people to share their reaction to the rioting at the U.S. The new survey, conducted among 5,360 U.S. Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S.

Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. adults in January 2021 and coded 2,684 open-ended responses about the event. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,360 U.S. Pew Research Center conducted this study to examine the public’s reactions to the U.S.

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