Private University or Trade school?

[Forlorn Drifter]

Ah lawd, ain't no way in damned hell we forgot the sweet tea did we? Sheeeit.

Also, reading the last couple pages, I'm quite scared how many of these stereotypes I can fit... yeesh. Just glad I ain't from east Texas, those damned accents man.

[Luke]

You just ruined NPR fun.

FWIW, I lol'd at your post.

As an NPR junkie, I admit I dropped the ball by forgetting that the segment is "Tell Me More". Crap.

ECU is a Pirate University. Can't go wrong with that.

[marurun]

You realize I'm also from Alabama, right?

Yeah...I am also from the South.

I grew up in Tennessee, but then I got better ; )

[MrPopo]

You realize I'm also from Alabama, right?

Yeah...I am also from the South.

I grew up in Tennessee, but then I got better ; )

Reminds me of a teacher I had in high school. "I used to be a Republican, then I went to college and got an education."

[dsheinem]

Reminds me of a teacher I had in high school. "I used to be a Republican, then I went to college and got an education."

Well...http://www.politifact.com/georgia/state ... endencies/

[Gunstar Green]

I love you all.

[ZeroAX]

"I used to be a Republican, then I went to college and got an education."

"I used to be a Democrat, then I created a start-up and got a billion dollars"

[Ack]

"I used to be a Republican, then I went to college and got an education."

"I used to be a Democrat, then I created a start-up and got a billion dollars"

No, that depends on the CEO. Nearly every CEO involved in the techtopus lawsuit voted Democrat.

Our military officers primarily vote Republican though. Enlisted tend to be more liberal in their views in comparison but still overwhelming conservative overall.

And liberals do dominate in academia, to the point that there are concerns about whether academia is openly and intentionally hostile to conservative individuals, though these views are not necessarily substantiated. Dr. Neil Gross, a sociologist currently at the University of British-Columbia but previously at the University of Southern California as well as Harvard University, wrote a book on the phenomenon, Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? His book explores the idea that over the course of the twentieth century, as academia shifted more and more liberal for various reasons, it became a self-reproducing phenomenon: bright and promising liberals were attracted to the perception of academia as inherently left wing while equally bright and promising conservatives were repelled by it and left to pursue other careers. In fact, this growing perception helped to establish large portions of the modern-day conservative movement in the US, which is partly reactionary to "liberal elitism" in academia.

Unfortunately it's now created a dangerous phenomenon, where academia continues to shift left but suffers from groupthink and an unwillingness to entertain right wing ideas while the conservative movement shows more and more signs of anti-intellectualism. It's gotten so bad at some schools that places like the University of Colorado at Boulder had to raise funds to endow a faculty chair specifically for a professor of conservative thought and policy.

[Jmustang1968]

Maybe it is more of a regional thing, but the majority of my engineering and computer science profs were conservative, while my history, sociology, and other similar profs tended to be liberal.

The vast majority of my engineering colleagues and IT people Ive worked with are also conservative. The conservatives are also not necessarily republicans, but a good percentage are libertarians.

Im not sure if this is a nationwide trend, but it is an observation I've made.

[Ack]

Maybe it is more of a regional thing, but the majority of my engineering and computer science profs were conservative, while my history, sociology, and other similar profs tended to be liberal.

The vast majority of my engineering colleagues and IT people Ive worked with are also conservative. The conservatives are also not necessarily republicans, but a good percentage are libertarians.

Im not sure if this is a nationwide trend, but it is an observation I've made.

No, it's also true that these political leanings change depending on the field. Engineering, business, tech, and agriculture tend to lean right more, while social sciences and humanities tends to lean hard left. It has been my personal experience that science, law, and math tends to split pretty evenly, but that's based on anecdotal evidence. It's also not completely true that any of these fields are purely one way or the other(as Gross points out, despite the assumption, the supposed intentional shut out of conservatism is largely a myth). My own field leans heavily left, though I've known some libertarian and conservative librarians.