Here’s a press release (via e-mail) from Princeton University Press for a forthcoming book, Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America, by Christopher S. Parker and Matt Barreto:

The book presents data from an unprecedented study of Tea Party supporters out of University of Washington to show that the Tea Party may share more in common with the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society than it does with conventional conservatives. Where traditional conservative values focus on limited government, free-market capitalism, and fiscal and personal responsibility, the Tea Party is motivated, according to Parker and Barreto, by fear and anxiety related to perceived social changes that manifest in racist and anti-homosexual rhetoric and strident ideology.

So I guess this pretty much proves that tea partiers are the worst people in the world. The pub date is May 26. Get your copy now!