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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vanderbilt is also a bit too conservative for many for from this area.   Not all tea party nut jobs, but definitely more right wing than you'd expect at a top school. [/quote]

Right because as we all know, only liberals can provide a high end educational experience.

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Bear in mind the quote attributed to Sir Winston Churchill:

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.”

Most educated people become more conservative with the benefit of age, wisdom and experience.  So, consider college as the “high water” mark of most open-minded people’s liberalism.
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You also have to keep in mind that Churchill would be considered a raving, card-carrying socialist by today's Republican base.

To quote from Geoffrey Best's [u]Churchill: A Study in Greatness[/u]:

[quote]He had favoured nationalising the railways since the Great War. He would not have been sorry if the coal industry had been nationalised in the troublesome 1920s. He could not find any good arguments against the case for keeping or bringing into public owndership public utilities that were also natural monopolies. …..

Then there was the government’s legislation establishing the National Health Service and comprehensive social insurance. The latter did bring him into action, but only to claim for himself when young, for pre-war Conservative governments and for his wartime coalition most of the credit for what he picked out as the schemes’ more sensible, affordable and discriminating elements.[/quote]
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