<p>For quite awhile now, I've been pondering which SEC school is the most Liberal on the political spectrum. For those who do not watch college football, the South East Conference consist of U of Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU, UGA, U of Tennessee, Vanderbilt, U of Arkansas, Mississippi St, Texas A&M, U of Florida, U of S. Carolina, Mizzou, U of Kentucky, and Auburn, all of which are in some of the most conservative states. Being a liberal in the South, I find this topic pretty amusing and since most the threads about college political affiliation are about the top 50 schools(which most these schools do not fall into) I though it would be interesting to rank the political affiliations of less prestigious schools for once. I'd also like to add U of Oklahoma, Oklahoma St, Clemson, U of Miami, Texas Tech, Florida St, and N. Carolina St just for the sake of argument.
My list is:
1. Miami
2. Florida
3. Vanderbilt
4. N. Carolina St
5. Mizzou
6. Kentucky
7. UGA
8. S. Carolina
9. Arkansas
10. Oklahoma
11. Florida St
12. Alabama
13. Clemson
14. Ole Miss
15. Tennessee
16. Texas Tech
17. LSU
18. Oklahoma St
19. Mississippi St
20. Auburn
21. Texas A&M</p>
<p>I guess I’m proud number 17 on the list…what criteria did you use?</p>
<p>I found a forum a while back but I mostly based it off my own prejudices of the college and some research for my own college decisions. I doubt it is terribly accurate but my criteria is the voting patterns of the state, how north it is, socioeconomic, how prestigious it is, college town (may have over played that), its location in the state, what the school specializes in, land-grant vs. university, national popularity, race… stuff like that. Nothing too elaborate:P
some corrections:
3. Vanderbilt
4. Kentucky (I heard they had a week on campus dedicated to sex which definitely moves them up)
5. NC st
6. Mizzou
7. S. Carolina
8. UGA
9. Arkansas
LSU might need to move up too</p>
<p>The main reason why I’m curious is that the majority of kids from my high school(TX) will go to these schools…and I love football.
Gig Em’</p>
<p>FSU is not at all conservative. Granted, I don’t know how it compares to the schools above, but it is way more liberal than Alabama (I practically grew up on FSU’s campus).</p>
<p>I don’t really know very much about FSU. I just assumed it would be moderate leaning to the right. How conservative would you say it is?</p>
<p>USCarolina is an extremely conservative school, and Clemson is a good bit more liberal.</p>
<p>I’ve heard the opposite, which makes sense to me since clemson is a rural, land-grant and S Carolina is an urban, more business oriented school. I’ve heard some mixed opinions though.</p>
<p>The student body here (LSU) is conservative, with the exception of the student media. I’m a petroleum engineering major, so I don’t take too many humanities classes. The few I did take I’ve had some very liberal professors. This isn’t uncommon in academia; professors tend to be that way no matter where they live.</p>
<p>I’d imagine LSU would be pretty conservative but it’s hard to think about Louisiana being as conservative as it probably really is because of New Orleans. I think it’s probably ranked correctly but I have this urge to move it up.
New ranking:
- Miami
- Florida
- Vanderbilt
- Florida St
- Kentucky
- N. Carolina St
- Mizzou
- UGA
- S. Carolina
- Arkansas
- Oklahoma
- Clemson
- Alabama
- Ole Miss
- Texas Tech
- Tennessee
- LSU
- Oklahoma St
- Mississippi St
- Auburn
- Texas A&M</p>
<p>looks more like the BCS rankings ;P</p>
<p>I go to LSU and it’s decently conservative. Interesting list.</p>
<p>Miami’s fairly evenly balanced. Out of all those schools, though, I would imagine we really are the most liberal.</p>
<p>Bama should probably be lower if ranking for liberal-ness</p>