Who are the members of the Tea Party? How does their class inform their opinions?

The Tea Party is a very loosely organized political and
social movement at the time.  They have no clear boundaries in terms of exactly what
their platform is because they are not organized or led on a national level, so defining
them in a forum such as this becomes exceedingly difficult.  I'm speaking in
generalities here, so take these with a grain of salt, and realize that they do not
quantify or qualify the movement as a whole.

1)  Tea Party
members support fiscal responsibility - that is, less spending, balanced
budgets

2)  They are, in general, overwhelmingly
Republicans and disaffected Republicans.  They are also overwhelmingly
white.

3)  The vast majority, I would bet, did not vote for
nor currently support President Obama or his policies

4) 
They claim to be Constitutional purists, wanting the government to act only according to
its specific original mandate.

You'll find more Tea Party
support in traditionally red, or Republican areas of the country - specifically, the
Bible Belt of the Southern states, the farming Midwest, Eastern Washington, Eastern
Oregon and Eastern California, Texas and Utah.  There are pockets elsewhere but this is
their base.

Fox News organization has incubated the Tea
Party movement, and helped them to secure funding through private and political interest
groups.  They get consistent news coverage, regardless of the size of their events, and
the anti-Obama meme often originates for them from that same news
source.