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title: "Data Feed: Democracy in Africa, healthcare reform in the South, race and college enrollment"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-04-24"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/04/24/data-feed-democracy-in-africa-healthcare-reform-in-the-south-race-and-college-enrollment/"
---

# Data Feed: Democracy in Africa, healthcare reform in the South, race and college enrollment

*A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.*

**Politics **[Southerners don't like Obamacare, but they also don't want to repeal it](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/health/health-law-repeal-has-little-support-poll-finds.html?_r=0), NYT/KFF [Southern whites' loyalty to GOP nearing that of blacks to Democrats](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/southern-whites-loyalty-to-gop-nearing-that-of-blacks-to-democrats.html?rref=upshot), The Upshot/NYT [Campaign donations come from more places, but concentrated among rich](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/23/the-rich-are-dominating-campaigns-heres-why-thats-about-to-get-worse/?wpisrc=nl_cage), WashPost [Californians give Common Core, new funding formula high marks](http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_414MBS.pdf), PPIC [Economy, healthcare hurting Colorado Sen. Mark Udall in reelection bid](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/colorado/release-detail?ReleaseID=2034), Quinnipiac [Facebook closes in on Google in D.C. lobbying spending](http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/23/facebook-closes-in-on-google-in-dc-lobbying-spending/?mod=ST1), The Wall Street Journal [Obama's 2012 religious coalition resembled young voters --Romney's, seniors](http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2014/04/24%20faith%20in%20equality/brookingsfaithinequalityfinal%20(4).pdf), Brookings

**Economy **[Americans' ratings of their personal finances is most positive since 2008](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168638/americans-ratings-personal-finances-inch.aspx), Gallup [Personal income rose by an average of 2.3% in 2012](http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/rpp/rpp_newsrelease.htm), Bureau of Economic Analysis [Why has housing market slowed? Less inventory, lower affordability](http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/why-the-housing-market-has-slowed-1330/), Wall Street Journal [Most imported U.S. clothing comes from China, Vietnam, Bangladesh](http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/where-the-u-s-gets-its-clothing-one-year-after-the-bangladesh-factory-collapse/), FiveThirtyEight

**Health & Society** [More Hispanics, blacks enrolling in college, but lag in bachelor's degrees](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/04/24/more-hispanics-blacks-enrolling-in-college-but-lag-in-bachelors-degrees/), Fact Tank [Americans favor affirmative action in principle, but not in college admissions](http://pollingmatters.gallup.com/2014/04/americans-on-use-of-race-as-factor-in.html), Gallup [About half of internationally adopted children were born in Asia](http://blogs.census.gov/2014/04/23/about-half-of-internationally-adopted-children-were-born-in-asia/), [report](http://www.census.gov/prod/2014pubs/p20-572.pdf), Census Bureau [White, older and self-employed people want to keep their health plans](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/04/23/white-older-and-self-employed-people-want-to-keep-their-health-plans/?tid=up_next), Washington Post [7.5% of 6- to 17-year-olds used prescription meds for emotional/behavioral issues](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db148.htm), CDC [Chart: California's water supplies are dwindling as its population is rising](http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/04/daily-chart-10), The Economist

**International **[Majority of Tunisians prefer democracy; 70% satisfied with their own](http://www.iri.org/news-events-press-center/news/iri-poll-tunisia%E2%80%99s-democratic-success-builds-cautious-optimism-and-hei), IRI [Malians' demand for democracy is below African average](http://www.afrobarometer.org/files/documents/policy_brief/ab_r5_policypaperno12.pdf), Afrobarometer [Economic growth in Africa projected to pick up, but subject to risks](http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/reo/2014/afr/eng/sreo0414.pdf), IMF [53% in EU say working conditions in their country are good](http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_398_sum_en.pdf), Eurobarometer

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