The Enquirer poll is the first comprehensive survey of racial attitudes since the April riots. It was conducted by the Mason-Dixon Polling & Research group of Columbia, Md., which interviewed 1,112 Greater Cincinnati adults by phone Aug. 17-23.

        The survey covered Hamilton, Warren, Butler and Clermont counties in Ohio, and Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties in Kentucky.

        Responses were tabulated by race and weighted to represent true black and white populations.

        The margin of error is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points for white people's responses and plus or minus 5 percentage points for black people's responses. That means that in 95 percent of cases, results would be within those ranges if everybody in that group were asked.

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