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The survey asked Orange County residents to rate three possible causes of the problems in their part of the county. These three causes were also rated by residents of San Diego County in a July 2000 survey, one of the PPIC Statewide Survey's regional surveys. Half of Orange County residents believe that too-fast growth (55%) and the government spending money on the wrong things (52%) are major causes of the problems facing their regions. Lack of convenient public transportation was rated a major cause by less than half (39%) of the residents. Among those residents who cite traffic as a big problem, fewer than half (46%) say that a lack of public transit is a major cause of regional problems. Despite the county's reputation for anti-tax and anti-government sentiments, Orange County residents are much less likely than San Diego County residents to say that government spending money on the wrong things is a major cause of the problems facing their regions (52% to 75%). Orange County residents are slightly less likely than San Diego County residents to rate too-fast growth as a major cause of problems in their part of the county (55% to 63%). Residents of the two counties are equally likely to see lack of convenient transportation as a cause of regional problems. Within Orange County, there are regional differences. Residents in the South County are more likely than North County residents to consider too-fast growth a major cause of their region's problems (62% to 52%). People in the North County are more likely than people in the South County to cite government spending money on the wrong things (55% to 44%) as the major cause of regional problems. Across racial and ethnic groups, non-Hispanic whites (57%) and Latinos (52%) are more likely than Asians (42%) to say that too fast growth is a major cause of the problems in their part of the county. Latinos are at least 10 percent more likely than non-Hispanic whites or Asians to rate government spending money on the wrong things as a major cause of their region's problems. "Is ______________ a major cause or a
minor cause of the
* Source for San Diego County is the PPIC Statewide Survey of San Diego County, July 2000. "Is ______________ a major cause or a minor cause of the problems facing your part of Orange County?"
Source for California is the PPIC Statewide Survey, May 2001.
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Causes of County Regional Problems