When is aid not welfare?

This is a phenomenon that doesn't speak only to conservatives, but a wide swath of the American public. You can see in the myriad of proposals to "drug test welfare recipients". Often this expresses itself state houses and facebook polls etc.

The concept always tend to be received very positively. Andrew Sullivan comes across a chart that show an interesting dichotomy. Conservatives are highly in favoring of cutting welfare but not nearly as much in favor of cutting "Aid to the poor".

My answer to this dilemma is the same as Sullivans.

"Er: Welfare means aid to the black poor, surely? And aid to the poor means white, right? Not that hard to figure it out."