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pseydtonne · 4240 days ago · link · · parent · post: Neil Gross, “Why are Professors Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care?”
There is also a major historical reason being neglected. Until 1974, being in college got you a student deferment from the draft. There were a lot of colleges that needed the income from students in the 1960s, so they started to inflate grades. This prevented students from dropping out and getting drafted. The side-effect was that students stayed in college longer and went to graduate school to avoid the draft. The same students that were protesting the war by not going to it became the PhD'd faculty that were already inclined against the "war sponsored by Coca-Cola".