<p>Whether or not conservatives are discriminated against is a stupid question to debate, because it really depends on what area of the country one is talking about. I believe that conservatives face a harsh social scene in the northern states, but I will never forget this conversation:</p>
<p>Middle school classmate: “Hey, R----, do you like George Bush?”</p>
<p>Me: “No.”</p>
<p>Middle school classmate: “People like you oughta be taken out and shot.”</p>
<p>Sometimes I wonder if ANYONE on CC lives or has ever lived in Tennessee.</p>
<p>Maryville College is the most “liberal” school in Tennessee, mostly by default. Maryville, with its middle-class feel and Presbyterian affiliation, has escaped both the redneck influences of the University of Tennessee and the preppy/blue blazer/Old South influences of Vanderbilt, Rhodes, and Sewanee. Alumni say that Maryville is a great place for free speech on both sides. </p>
<p>The most liberal private schools in the entire south are Hendrix College and Guilford College. Guilford has a social conscience ten miles deep because of its Quaker affiliation, while Hendrix attracts freethinkers and dirty hippies from all over with its commitment to independent study and multiculturalism. </p>
<p>The most liberal public schools in the south are UNC Asheville and New College of Florida, for reasons already noted.</p>
<p>New College of Florida, for many, many reasons, including those reasons that led Glenn Beck, in his book “An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems,” to name New College number one among coeducational “Institutions of Leftist Learning.”</p>
<p>Since he never went to college, I think he is in a very good position to know. But maybe we should ask Sean Hannity, who dropped outta two of them (NYU and Adelphi), or Rush Limbaugh, who couldn’t pass a single course at Missouri State.</p>
<p>Yesterday the junior AVID class took a trip to York College of PA. They did the typical tour things, spoke with and AdCom and ate a meal. I was surprised to find that many of them came back with a teacher bearing the mantra “Gay? Fine by me.” The notion of selling these T-shirts to high school students you know nothing about screamed liberalism to me. A risky move in my opinion</p>
<p>bandgeek05–I don’t get it. If the kids want to buy the shirts, what’s the problem? Nobody made them buy/wear them.</p>
<p>My son has one, and I try to make sure he doesn’t wear it when visiting the conservative grandpa, but he does have the right to support his gay friends and express his opinion.</p>
<p>^Nothing’s wrong with some good old fashioned capitalism. In my eyes, the wearing a shirt like that has no more significance than a shirt saying “African? Fine by me.”</p>
<p>UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Whitman, Wesleyan, Univ. Texas at Austin, Tufts, Univ. of Chicago, Northwestern, Wash U. in St. Louis, Emory, Tulane.</p>
<p>I would stay away from Middlebury and Williams–they have large, student “Christian coaltitions.” A lot of kids, there, hail from very Conservative New England and Mid-Atlantic families, esp. Williams.</p>
<p>`nuff said. Granted, these are not current students, but I’m often thunderstruck by the number of complete gasbags who must have passed through Williams from the fifties through the early nineties (Ms. Coakley being one of the few exceptions.)</p>