Groups of Citizens from Liberal Boulder,Colorado,and Groups of Citizens from Conservative

question 262

Multiple Choice

Groups of citizens from liberal Boulder,Colorado,and groups of citizens from conservative Colorado Springs,Colorado,were asked to discuss socially relevant issues such as affirmative action and same-sex unions. After group discussion,the groups from Boulder expressed increasingly ________ positions and the groups from Colorado Springs expressed increasingly ________ positions.

• A)liberal; liberal
• B)moderate; moderate
• C)conservative; liberal
• D)liberal; conservative

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Freudian Theory

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