This isn't directly on the topic of your thread, so I apologize, but one thing I've been trying to get my head around is how universities are supposed to be these hotbeds of liberal indoctrination, but then "College Educated Whites" show up on polls as the most conservative bloc. I'm not doubting that the professoriate leans heavily liberal, but they would seem to be doing a spectacularly bad job of inculcating liberalism in their students. If people who emerge from college are the most reliably conservative group in the country, then I have to assume that they are fairly conservative all through college. (I mean, there will be some who are attracted to liberalism during their college years, and then become more conservative once they own houses and have children; I get that). But most will have been conservative all along, insofar as they are political at all. (I don't mean at the Middleburys and Bards of the world.) And if so, why do they feel so oppressed in the totality of their college experience? Yeah, having to spout liberal views for that intolerant liberal professor has to grate. But when they're kicking back with their friends, can't they pretty much be as conservative as they want to be? Anyway, don't want to hijack the thread. I've just been musing on the oppression that college conservatives report experiencing and how that squares with the fact that graduates go on to be as comfortably conservative as they want to be.
