Detroit-area individuals who made financial contributions to the campaign of David Duke, a far right 1991 gubernatorial candidate in Louisiana came from a wide range of socio-economic levels spread across the white areas of the metropolitan region. Although they were better educated and older in age, the contributors were hardly distinctive from their neighbors or the general white population. They opposed special job training, educational aid for blacks and other racial and gender support programs but lacked a distinctive ideology, as is evident from opinion differences on environmental protection and gun control issues.