More than 65 percent of Texans said they would support vaccine mandates issued by federal, state or local governments; the national average was 64 percent. More than 70 percent of Texans would support vaccine requirements to board an airplane; more than 62 percent would support vaccine mandates for children returning to schools; and 67 percent would support them for students returning to universities.

The findings come as some private businesses begin requiring vaccines, but government leaders have resisted such mandates as they’ve struggled to convince large numbers of Americans to get vaccinated, even as the more contagious delta variant spreads. Less than 53 percent of Texans are fully vaccinated, according to state data…

Democrats are nearly twice as likely as Republicans to support mandates — 84 percent to 45 percent — though support among both groups has ticked upward since a previous survey this spring.

Rural Americans, meanwhile, were 20 percentage points less supportive than urban residents, 53 percent to 73 percent, and white Americans were 18 points less likely to support requiring vaccines than Asian Americans, who were most supportive of mandates.