online opt-in

Winthrop Poll

Winthrop Poll, February 2025 (South Carolina) · Feb 21, 2025 – Mar 5, 2025 · US: South Carolina

Methodology

Pollster
Winthrop Poll academic
Sponsor
Winthrop University Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory
Fielded
Feb 21, 2025 – Mar 5, 2025
Population
adults
Sample size
1,220
Sample frame
online opt-in
Mode
online (CAWI)
Margin of error
±2.81 percentage points
Weighting
weighted by sex, race, and age to U.S. Census Bureau data
Geography
US: South Carolina
Base notes
1,220 weighted respondents, South Carolina adult residents

Sources

Verification note. This poll carried no transgender-specific policy item; the only in-scope question is a combined-group discrimination item (Table 52) that explicitly names transgender people. Wording, full distribution and party breaks read from the Winthrop results page. Note the fielding overlaps the April 2025 Winthrop wave that DID carry the six-item transgender policy battery.

Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.

Questions asked (1)

General acceptance4-point scalein a trend series
perceived discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender people

In our society today, how much discrimination is there against

In our society today, how much discrimination is there against Gays, Lesbians, and Transgender people?

A lot
49%
Some
31%
Only a little
14%
None at all
7%

Wording notes: bundles gay, lesbian and transgender people into a single group - transgender-specific attitudes cannot be separated out | asked as one row in a multi-group discrimination battery

double_barreled — The item folds sexual-orientation and gender-identity minorities into one response object, so a respondent who perceives different levels of discrimination against gay people and transgender people has no way to register that; the four-point magnitude scale is otherwise symmetric.

Subgroup figures (8)

party

GroupA lotSomeOnly a littleNone at all
Republicans31%38%23%8%
Democrats69%25%3%3%

Every figure on this page is transcribed from the source linked above. How to read this data →