On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Bill Quimby <wquimby at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 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
I think the data mainly says that political opinions solidify around
late high school. Almost everyone who goes to grad school, of course,
is left or liberal, but that's almost entirely due to selection.
>
> John Gulick wrote:
>>> "66% of Tea Party activists make over $50,000 a year, compared to
>>> 42% of
>>> the general electorate."
>>> "Nearly three quarters of Tea Party activists attended college,
>>> compared to
>>> 54 percent of all Americans."
>> 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...
>> PS, thanks for the hard data.
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