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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a troll post.  OP is a LWNJ troll.

She already knows at all universities liberal professors outnumber conservatives 12 to 1.

Study after study confirm what even the most casual observer of higher education has long known — that conservative professors are vastly outnumbered by liberal ones — but they also show the problem is getting worse.

Published in Econ Journal Watch last month, one study looks at faculty voter registration at 40 leading universities and finds that, out of 7,243 professors, Democrats outnumber Republicans 3,623 to 314, or by a ratio of 11 1/2 to 1.
This study comes after a tumultuous few years at American colleges and universities, marked by campus race protests, the disinvitation of conservative speakers and the popularization of phrases such as “trigger warning” and “safe space.”

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/liberal-professors-outnumber-conservatives-12-1/[/quote]

What “study after study” has shown is that education correlates with liberal politics.  This is because American, right wing politics are an internally inconsistent mess driven primarily by the business interests of a few billionaires and media personalities who profit from stupidity, so they tend to fall apart when objectively analyzed (“freedom!” - except if you are gay or trans or need an abortion, “guns!” - unless you’re a Black person who owns a legal firearm, “God” - unless you’re Muslim).

That said, OP expressed themselves badly.  Of course, everywhere in the country there are anti-racist, tolerant people, and the DMV is full of people who define themselves as liberal but are pretty intolerant.

As someone who lived for a long time in conservative areas, what’s different is threats to physical safety for people who aren’t straight, white, cis Christians.  I was involved in three violent physical altercations in my 20s in South Carolina - one when a me and a mixed race groups of friends were accosted by a pickup truck full of drunk racists, and two others when people said anti-Semitic things to me and friends I was with.  That has never happened to me outside of the south. [/quote]

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