A NARROW DEMOGRAPHIC

UPDATE: A BBC radio documentary noted the same narrow demo.

The Tea Party Convention seems to have drawn the same crowd that provides the bulk of the audience for FAUX News and right-wing talk radio: over 50, white and middle class. I think The Christian Science Monitor is a reasonably unbiased paper and it also noticed the crowd:

Protest inside the protestA protest movement barely a year old protesting itself is part and parcel of the wild and wooly world of the tea party, indicative both of its philosophical (if not racial and class) diversity and the difficulty the literally thousands of independent tea party groups face as they attempt to harness widespread anger and disaffection to change the electoral math in Washington.