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High Point University Pollfor Greensboro News & RecordBathrooms & facilitiesSep 17–22, 2016whether HB2's birth-certificate bathroom provision is necessary for safety and privacy
House Bill 2 was enacted in March. It includes a provision that requires people to use public bathrooms that correspond to the gender recorded on their birth certificates.
House Bill 2 was enacted in March. It includes a provision that requires people to use public bathrooms that correspond to the gender recorded on their birth certificates. Do you believe this law is necessary or NOT necessary to protect public safety and privacy in North Carolina?
Base: 404 likely North Carolina voters (273 cell phone, 131 landline)
Wording notes: adopts the bill's own justification ('to protect public safety and privacy') as the standard being judgedaccurate description of the provisiondoes not use the word transgender
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Necessary
- Not necessary
- Don't know
- Refused
High Point University Pollfor Greensboro News & RecordNondiscriminationSep 17–22, 2016 HB2's preemption of local anti-discrimination ordinances
House Bill 2 also prohibits North Carolina cities from adopting local anti-discrimination ordinances.
House Bill 2 also prohibits North Carolina cities from adopting local anti-discrimination ordinances. Do you believe cities should be allowed to adopt their own anti-discrimination ordinances or should NOT be allowed to adopt such ordinances?
Base: 404 likely North Carolina voters (273 cell phone, 131 landline)
Wording notes: preemption framingdoes not name transgender people or the protected classes at issue
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Cities should be allowed
- Cities should NOT be allowed
- Don't know
- Refused
High Point University Pollfor Greensboro News & RecordBathrooms & facilitiesSep 17–22, 2016 perceived economic impact of HB2 boycotts and cancellations
Some corporations, business groups, entertainers, and sports associations have canceled events in North Carolina because of House Bill 2.
Some corporations, business groups, entertainers, and sports associations have canceled events in North Carolina because of House Bill 2. Do you believe this has had a large economic impact, small impact, or no economic impact on North Carolina?
Base: 404 likely North Carolina voters (273 cell phone, 131 landline)
Wording notes: preamble asserts that cancellations occurred (factually true at the time)
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Large economic impact
- Small impact
- No economic impact
- Don't know
High Point University Pollfor Greensboro News & RecordBathrooms & facilitiesSep 17–22, 2016 trade-off between enforcing HB2 and ending its economic impact
Which is more important to you personally, enforcing the law called House Bill 2 or ending any economic impact it may be having on North Carolina?
Base: 404 likely North Carolina voters (273 cell phone, 131 landline)
Wording notes: forces a trade-off between two non-exclusive goodsfollows an item establishing that the economic impact is large
Response options as the pollster wrote them
- Enforcing House Bill 2
- Ending House Bill 2's economic impact
- Don't know
- Refused