How Liberal Professors Are Ruining College (2016)

I feel like the main issue is that the Republican party has stood as against LGBT rights, women's rights and against global warming. If a professor is Republican, they have to find some way to reconcile the attack on science that so many right leaning politicians support. Also, science as a field has issues with gender disparity so to not be pro women's rights would also make them look like part of the problem. Additionally, a lot of the platform consists of biblical thought which is very unscientific.

> Conservative professors weren’t always so heavily outnumbered here.

May be the republican party just moved on and it became hard for critical thinkers to follow up.

Speaking for my self, after 8 year of obstructionism and 50+ attempts to repeal the ACA, and it turns out the republicans don't even have a plan. It is not merely and ideological divide about economic or social policy any more. Made up facts are now the rule.

I live in New England and this doesn't ring true for me. I think New England is very tolerant (even in the rural bits, which there are plenty of), and has a long history of tolerance, but I wouldn't confuse that with "liberalism". There's a ton of die-hard Democrat Catholics in New England, for example. I grew up Catholic, and I hardly associate it with liberalism, but I don't think I've ever met a Republican Catholic

Charlie Baker is exceptionally popular, fiscal conservatism is clearly not frowned upon. Reading the WSJ does not make you a pariah, but even the Republicans here don't like the national Republicans.