<p>There are a lot of conservative engineering profs, lol! My dad is one, and I knew a lot of his colleagues were.</p>
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^^^ That may be one exception, however if the high school was like most high schools in texas, it would have been very conservative</p>
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^^^^ Exactly my point!!! (you ended up proving my point) If universities “attract” liberals, like you say, then that means that most conservatives don’t even have college degrees. This goes back to my original point that higher levels of education are positively correlated (maybe there is some causation going on that I don’t know about)with more liberal political view points. </p>
<p>spdf do you by chance go to Texas A&M? Because only an aggie would be stupid enough to provide data for his opponent in an argument…jk jk lol…</p>
<p>Liberals tend to be more drawn to WORKING at unis than conservatives.</p>
<p>Colleges, when I said universities attract liberals, I meant the professors, not the students. Liberals are drawn more to teaching in a university environment than conservatives are, so if you have 100 PhD scientists, for example, you will end up with a disproportionate number working at universities compared with working in industry. There are a number of different reasons for this, none of which involve intelligence.</p>
<p>Those who espouse the view that liberals are more intelligent than conservatives, or that conservatives are more intelligent than liberals, are somehow left to explain why, despite their obviously superior intelligence, they have not been able to totally dominate a nation in which their only opponents are so helplessly inferior.</p>
<p>Well, increasingly, people with post-graduate degrees are voting for democratic candidates. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re smarter, but it means that more people that have achieved the highest level of education lean left rather than right, especially women.</p>
<p>“Well, increasingly, people with post-graduate degrees are voting for democratic candidates. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re smarter, but it means that more people that have achieved the highest level of education lean left rather than right, especially women.”</p>
<p>Can we get some stats on that? I feel like you just heard of one or two PhD’s voting for Obama and now they all do in your eyes.</p>
<p>^^ I found this, although it’s 4 years old. Scroll down a bit and you will see “Vote by Education”.</p>
<p>[CNN.com</a> - Elections 2006](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/US/H/00/epolls.0.html]CNN.com”>CNN.com - Elections 2006)</p>
<p>This also, has a nice little chart. I’m not sure how reputable it is.</p>
<p><a href=“In Search of Ideologues in America | Pew Research Center”>In Search of Ideologues in America | Pew Research Center;
<p>Damn it, I didn’t want this thread to be a debate as to whether conservatives or liberals are smarter. Oh well.</p>
<p>In my opinion having a college degree does not mean you are necessarily smarter or better than anyone else. Bill Gates doesn’t have a college degree. </p>
<p>Colleges00701, you completely and totally changed the subject of this thread.</p>
<p>Interesting link, let’s not get started on how (in)accurate exit polls are though.</p>
<p>Lol, I wasn’t trying to change the subject of the thread, but its just something that I have always noticed. There is a positive correlation between higher levels of education and more liberal viewpoints…I always wondered why…I am sure Republicans can get more people with higher levels of education to vote for them, if they just dropped the religious/social conservatives from their party. If you think about it, most people with higher education should be voting for republicans (these people typically have higher income, and would like to see lower taxes, and less government intervention in their personal lives), but I guess its a turnoff for them, when they see religious/social conservatives use 17th century ways of thinking…</p>
<p>Seriously G.O.P. step your game, and drop the backward thinking social conservatives…</p>
<p>[White</a> Gender Gap in Obama Approval Widens With Education](<a href=“White Gender Gap in Obama Approval Widens With Education”>White Gender Gap in Obama Approval Widens With Education)</p>
<p>Seriously though, that’s why I said “that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re smarter.” It doesn’t. People have different views. But if you look at statistics, there is a correlation.</p>
<p>FYI, many would call me a social conservative Colleges00701, and that’s fine, I’ll cling even tighter to guns and religion. I consider myself just an all around conservative though.</p>
<p>This is what I absolutely abhor about some college graduates and students. They think that because they are more educated than the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds, they are “enlightened” while the us oh so uneducated conservatives are “simplistic.”</p>
<p>This attitude is so hypocritical. These same liberals who look down on those who haven’t been to college, are horrified if anybody does the same thing only with skin color. This sickens me.</p>
<p>I’m very serious about getting an education. But I also realize that not everyone who doesn’t go to college is less smart, less useful, or less moral.</p>
<p>“This attitude is so hypocritical. These same liberals who look down on those who haven’t been to college, are horrified if anybody does the same thing only with skin color. This sickens me.”</p>
<p>What?</p>
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<p>^^^ Why are you generalizing all people who have college degrees as people who “look down” on people who work at McDonalds. Maybe you should stop stereotyping people, and be more open minded? Never assume anything about anyone, unless you really get to know them. </p>
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<p>^^^ In my experience, so do most people, I still don’t understand why you are assuming this about everyone with higher education.</p>
<p>Read my post more carefully. I said some college graduates and students. I am not stereotyping anyone. In my experience I have met some educated people who have a vibe of superiority. Did I ever say that all of them do? Did I even say most of them do?</p>
<p>I don’t know how you got from my post that I assume everyone with a higher education does this.</p>
<p>But their are also many liberals who haven’t gone to college let alone barely graduate HS…</p>
<p>You know what’s funny? Look at the data for white male support of Obama in the tables in UTCOLA’s link in Post #31. There is an inverse correlation between education and income in support of Obama – his highest support among white males comes from those with the highest degrees and the lowest incomes. So if you meet a while male with a PhD in philosophy, medieval history, or theater, it’s a pretty safe bet he’s an Obama supporter! ;)</p>
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<p>^^^ Wats your point??? I said a positive correlation between higher education between liberal viewpoints. A PhD in philosophy is still a PhD. I wasn’t discussing income in my original argument.</p>
<p>[UT</a> professors prefer democrats - Statesman.com](<a href=“http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/investigative/entries/2010/09/27/ut_professors_prefer_democrats.html]UT”>http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/investigative/entries/2010/09/27/ut_professors_prefer_democrats.html)</p>
<p>I think that article answers the actual question, at least about the professors. Can we please stop posting on this everyday? It shows up at the top of the threads list every single time I log on here…</p>