72% of Kentuckians say businesses should be required by law to provide access to persons with disabilities, compared to 60% of Kentuckians who say businesses should be required by law to serve customers of all ethnic backgrounds, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for The Louisville Courier Journal and WHAS-TV. Looking at just Tea Party supporters: 61% say the government should be required to provide access to persons with disabilities. 50% say the government should make sure persons of all races have equal access. 32% of Kentuckians say businesses should be able to decide on their own whether they serve persons of all races. By comparison: 24% say businesses should be able to decide on their own whether they can deny service to persons with disabilities.

Kentuckians overwhelmingly say the government's response to the Gulf oil spill has not been forceful enough. 3 in 10 Kentuckians support farm subsidies for all farmers, regardless of income; 5 in 10 support subsidizing farmers below a certain income level. 4% of Kentucky adults describe themselves as active members of the Tea Party. Another 41% say they agree with the Tea Party, though are not active. 23% oppose the Tea Party. 33% are unfamiliar with the Tea Party. For the Tea Party "cross-tab" on this report, "active" Tea Party members and "agree" with Tea Party respondents are combined and labeled "Support."

African Americans in this survey were oversampled by 375% to ensure that their answers to Question 5, in particular, would be extrapolatable. The theoretical margin of sampling error on answers from black respondents is reduced from 15% to 8% as a result. When answers from both white and black respondents are combined in this report, black respondents were weighted down to their correct percentage of the state's overall population.