[lbo-talk] who are the Teabaggers?

[Bill Quimby]

The time when a-political middle-class kids went to college and left
transformed as liberals died 40-50 years ago. I would guess (and no, I have
no evidence to back this up, thank you) that now it is right-centrist
kids coming out as libertarians. And damn yes, the college they go to has an
enormous influence on their political position after college - not necessarily
through a designed attempt to influence the young, but through the
impact of the faculty makeup - primarily centrist bourgeois cowed by
the culture (a McCarthyism absorbed in uterus).

- Bill

John Gulick wrote:
>> "66% of Tea Party activists make over $50,000 a year, compared to 42% of
>> the general electorate."
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>> "Nearly three quarters of Tea Party activists attended college, compared to
>> 54 percent of all Americans."
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> Golly, all the degreed liberal cosmopolitans in my inner circle could have
> sworn that the Tea Partiers were uneducated trailer trash, to the last man.
> Something or other about "mouthbreathers..." I guess sending their kids to
> Cornell won't be the cure-all...
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> PS, thanks for the hard data.
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