2026-06-17T10:00:08.909Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/17/politics/cnn-poll-gender-race-views-culture-war
- 一项新的CNN民调显示，美国人在文化包容问题上分歧严重。
- 共和党正在中期选举竞选活动中利用这些文化战议题，用聚焦性别和社会问题过往言论的广告攻击民主党候选人。
- 民调揭示了深刻的党派分歧：民主党人认为社会包容程度还不够，而越来越多的共和党人和无党派人士认为包容程度已经过头了。
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在竞选美国参议员的数年前，詹姆斯·塔拉里科曾称有六种性别，宣称“上帝是非二元性别的”，并认为美国人减少肉类消费以应对气候变化是“关乎存亡”的事。
在共和党人因这些言论抨击他、称其为“觉醒派”后，这位得克萨斯州州议员如今正与部分言论拉开距离，称它们“令人尴尬”。
这些未必是大多数美国人最关心的议题：正如今年多项民调所显示的，最受关注的议题是经济。但在全美范围内，共和党候选人正用大量广告宣传对抗“觉醒左翼”——或指责对手未能做到这一点。共和党人尤其针对塔拉里科，急切地将他打造成民主党在得克萨斯州之外的软肋。
一项由SSRS开展的新CNN民调表明，公众在所谓“文化战”的大致轮廓上分歧严重。近一半美国人认为社会对不同文化、性别身份、性取向和背景的包容程度已经过头，而略超半数的人反对这一说法。
过去一年来，越来越多的共和党人和无党派人士认为社会包容程度已经过头，这使得持该观点的公众整体比例较去年夏天上升了6个百分点。如今近八成共和党人持此观点，47%的无党派人士也这么认为。
“2、3、4、5年前你根本不会多想的话，现在人们突然会说，‘哦，你不能那么说’，”参与调查的路易斯安那州共和党人埃德·谢德洛克说道。“有些人会因为一些微不足道的事情取消他人的资格，甚至都不值得和他们聊聊。”
当被问及当下更严重的社会问题是人们在言论上过于小心翼翼，还是人们肆无忌惮地发表冒犯性言论时，美国人的意见大致持平。
其他分歧则更为悬殊。仅有约三分之一的美国人认为，回归20世纪50年代关于传统性别角色的理想会让国家变得更好。另有45%的人认为这会让国家变得更糟——这一比例较1997年的34%有所上升，这一转变主要得益于美国女性日益达成的共识。
这些议题在共和党初选中尤其有影响力，因为那里的选民大多已准备好反对文化包容。在全国范围内，唐纳德·特朗普总统的政府早在第二任期之初就将取消多元化举措作为一项突出的核心政策。
在6月23日南卡罗来纳州州长共和党 runoff 选举前夕，副州长帕梅拉·埃维特在广告中提及“觉醒暴民”，强调自己因学生抗议活动被取消在南卡罗来纳州立大学的演讲邀请。
“我会确保，如果自由派机构取消保守派的活动，我们就取消他们的资助，”她在广告中说道。“我是帕梅拉·埃维特，觉醒暴民什么都得不到——也什么都别想从我们这里拿走。”
在内华达州，共和党公开国会席位初选的近期获胜者戴维·菲利波发布广告攻击主要竞争对手詹姆斯·塞特尔迈耶，指责他是“伪装成共和党人的觉醒自由派”。这则广告援引了塞特尔迈耶作为州参议员时的多项投票记录。
在得克萨斯州，塔拉里科已经面临共和党广告突出其过往社会问题言论的攻击。他在上个月接受CBS新闻采访时表示，自己的部分言论“没说到点子上”，但指责其共和党对手肯·帕克斯顿“故意截取我那些令人尴尬的言论，以转移人们对他自身政治弱点的注意力”。
站在对立面的民主党人和倾向民主党的无党派人士在CNN民调中持有不同观点，60%对18%的受访者认为，社会在包容方面做得还不够，而非过头。
“作为美国人最棒的一点是我们彼此支持，”居住在纽约的民主党人丹尼·米纳亚说道，他认为社会包容程度还不够。“你为小人物而战，为遭受不公的人挺身而出，为需要保护权利的人站出来。现在看来，我们似乎并没有做到这些。”
不过，民主党内部也存在一些分歧。在民主党人和倾向民主党的人士中，女性比男性更有可能认为冒犯性言论是个问题，比例高出8个百分点；同时女性比男性更有可能认为社会在文化、性别身份和性取向包容方面做得还不够，比例高出14个百分点——尽管两派多数男性和女性都持这些观点。
倾向民主党的白人比倾向民主党的少数族裔更有可能认为社会包容程度还不够，差距达20个百分点；同时前者也比后者更有可能认为回归20世纪50年代的性别角色会让国家变得更糟，差距约为24个百分点。大学毕业生和非大学毕业生之间也存在类似分歧。
“觉醒”辩论的核心始于2019年左右的一段时期，当时民主党在言论和立场上向左靠拢，因为当时竞争激烈的候选人阵营为争夺党内提名、挑战次年选举中的唐纳德·特朗普总统而展开角逐。
其中一位候选人是时任加利福尼亚州参议员卡玛拉·哈里斯，她在2019年一个民权组织的调查问卷中表示，她支持为被拘留的移民和联邦囚犯提供变性手术。五年后，当她成为民主党总统候选人时，特朗普阵营在广告中抓住这一问卷答案不放，宣称“卡玛拉支持‘他们/她们’，特朗普总统支持你”。
居住在佛罗里达州的终身民主党人杰基·弗兰克参与了此次调查，她将特朗普赢得总统大选、帮助共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯在该州获胜归咎于这类攻击。
“我成长的年代，人们开始非常注意如何称呼他人、如何遣词造句，然后舆论风向一转，‘觉醒’在共和党人眼里就成了贬义词，”她说道。
关于种族和性别是否构成优势的看法
大多数男性和美国白人否认自己因出生在这些种族或性别群体中而在生活中获得过优势。但几乎没有人认为自己曾成为歧视的目标：仅有8%的美国白人表示，他们的种族曾让自己在生活中处于不利地位，仅有十分之一的男性表示，他们的性别曾让自己处于不利地位。
与共和党倾向者相比，民主党倾向的美国白人有三倍之多（72%对24%）表示，他们的种族曾让自己在生活中获得过优势。倾向民主党的少数族裔比倾向共和党的少数族裔更有可能表示，他们的种族曾让自己处于不利地位，比例为51%对30%。
性别方面也存在类似模式：49%的民主党倾向男性表示，他们的性别曾让自己在生活中获得过优势，而共和党倾向男性的这一比例为22%；48%的民主党倾向女性认为，她们的性别曾让自己处于不利地位，而共和党倾向女性的这一比例为23%。
CNN的詹妮弗·阿吉斯塔和爱德华·吴为本报告贡献了内容。
这项CNN民调由SSRS于5月7日至31日在全国范围内对2480名成年人开展，结合了线上和电话采访。调查样本最初来自两个渠道——基于地址的抽样和预付手机号的随机-digit拨号抽样——之后进行了合并。受访者通过邮件、电话或短信联系。全样本的抽样误差幅度为正负2.7个百分点。
Americans are divided on ‘culture war’ issues, a new CNN poll finds. Republicans are trying to leverage that in the midterms
2026-06-17T10:00:08.909Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/17/politics/cnn-poll-gender-race-views-culture-war
- A new CNN poll shows Americans are sharply divided on cultural acceptance.
- Republicans are using these culture war issues in midterm campaigns, targeting Democratic candidates with ads focused on past statements about gender and social issues.
- The poll reveals deep partisan splits, with Democrats saying societal acceptance hasn’t gone far enough, while a growing share of Republicans and independents say it has gone too far.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
In the years before he ran for US Senate, James Talarico said there were six sexes, declared that “God is nonbinary” and deemed it “existential” for Americans to reduce their meat consumption to combat climate change.
As Republicans have assailed him over those comments, calling them “woke,” the Texas state representative is now distancing himself from some of the remarks, calling them “cringey.”
These aren’t necessarily the issues at the top of most Americans’ minds: As a wealth of polling this year has shown, that issue would be the economy. But across the country, Republican candidates are bombarding voters with ads about fighting the “woke” left – or accusing their opponents of failing to do so. Republicans are especially galvanized against Talarico and eager to make him a vulnerability for Democrats beyond Texas.
A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS suggests the public is sharply divided over the broad contours of the so-called culture war. Just shy of half of Americans think society has gone too far in its acceptance of different cultures, gender identities, sexual orientations and backgrounds, while a little over half reject that characterization.
Over the past year, Republicans and independents have grown more likely to say that society’s level of acceptance has gone too far, driving the overall share of the public who takes that view up 6 points from last summer. Close to eight in 10 Republicans now say they feel that way, as do 47% of political independents.
“Things you’d never think twice about saying 2, 3, 4, 5 years ago, now people are suddenly saying, ‘Oh you can’t say that,’” said Ed Shedlock, a Republican from Louisiana who took the survey. “Some people will cancel people for something so insignificant it’s not even worth having a conversation with them.”
Asked to choose the bigger social problem these days – people having to be too careful about what they say, or people feeling too comfortable making offensive statements – Americans are about evenly split.
Other divides are more lopsided. Only about one-third of Americans think the country would be improved by a return to 1950s ideals about traditional gender roles. Another 45% say it would be worse – up from 34% in 1997, a shift that’s mostly due to a growing consensus among American women.
These issues have been particularly potent within GOP primaries, where politicians face an electorate largely primed for a backlash against cultural acceptance. Nationally, President Donald Trump’s administration made efforts to roll back diversity initiatives an early and prominent tentpole of his second term.
Ahead of the June 23 Republican runoff for South Carolina governor, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette has invoked the “woke mob” in ads highlighting how she was disinvited from speaking at South Carolina State University after student protests.
“I’ll make sure that if liberal institutions cancel conservatives, we cancel their funding,” she says in the ads. “I’m Pamela Evette, and the woke mob will get nothing – and take nothing – from us.”
In Nevada, the recent winner of a GOP primary for an open House seat, David Flippo, aired ads against his main competitor, James Settelmeyer, accusing him of being a “woke liberal pretending to be a Republican.” The commercial cites a number of votes Settelmeyer cast as a state senator.
In Texas, Talarico is already facing GOP ads highlighting his past comments on social issues. He said in CBS News interview last month that some of his statements “missed the mark” but accused his Republican opponent, Ken Paxton, of “intentionally clipping my cringey comments to distract from” his own political vulnerabilities.
Across the aisle, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents hold a different view in the CNN poll, saying, 60% to 18%, that rather than going too far in its acceptance, society hasn’t gone far enough.
“The best part about being an American is that we stand up for each other,” said Danny Minaya, a Democrat living in New York who said that societal acceptance hadn’t gone far enough. “You fight for the little guy, you stand up for the person that’s being shitted on, you stand up for the person that needs their rights protected. Right now, it doesn’t seem like we’re doing that.”
There are, however, some divides within the party. Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, women are 8 points likelier than men to see an issue with offensive speech and 14 points likelier to say that society hasn’t gone far enough in accepting differences on culture, gender identity and sexual orientations – though majorities among both genders hold those views.
Democratic-aligned Whites are 20 points likelier than Democratic-aligned people of color to say that societal acceptance hasn’t gone far enough, and about 24 points likelier to say that a return to 1950s gender roles would make the country worse. There are similar divides between college graduates and those without degrees.
At the heart of the debate over “wokeness” is a period of time beginning around 2019 when Democrats moved to the left in their rhetoric and positions as a crowded field competed for their party’s nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in the next year’s election.
One of those candidates was then-California Sen. Kamala Harris, who said in a 2019 questionnaire for a civil rights group that she supported gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners. When she emerged as the Democratic presidential nominee five years later, Trump’s campaign seized on the questionnaire answer in ads that declared, “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.”
Jackie Frank, a lifelong Democrat living in Florida who took the survey, credits those types of attacks for helping Trump win the presidency, and giving Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis the win in her state.
“I grew up in a time when there was a flip in the switch about being very careful about how you address people and the things that you said, and then the pendulum swung to ‘woke’ being a bad word” among Republicans, she said.
Views on whether race and gender are advantages
Most men and White Americans reject the idea that they’ve seen advantages in their lives from being born into those demographics. But few feel as though they’ve been the targets of discrimination themselves: Just 8% of White Americans say that their race has been a disadvantage in their lives, and only 1 in 10 men say their gender has been a disadvantage.
White Americans who align with the Democratic Party are three times as likely as those aligned with the GOP, 72% to 24%, to say that their race has been an advantage in their lives. Democratic-aligned people of color are likelier than those aligned with the GOP, 51% to 30%, to say their race has been a disadvantage.
There’s a similar pattern on gender: 49% of Democratic-aligned men, compared with 22% of Republican-aligned men, say their gender has been an advantage in life; 48% of Democratic-aligned women, compared with 23% of Republican-aligned women, feel that their gender has been a disadvantage.
CNN’s Jennifer Agiesta and Edward Wu contributed to this report.
The CNN poll was conducted among 2,480 adults nationwide by SSRS from May 7-31, using a combination of online and telephone interviews. The survey samples were originally drawn from two sources – an address-based sample and a random-digit dial sample of prepaid cell phone numbers – and combined. Respondents were contacted by mail, phone or text. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.