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> in the top few percent for income in the US, and live in California (one of the highest tax states), and I happily pay them.

Well, thats not surprising but at same time not default for most people. Universities have been leaning left since at least 60's and 70's . If all the people who attended university remained influenced by those ideas over the years. Most of the people with higher income and influential positions in society would be overwhelmingly left but that has not happened. It just shows a lot of people become conservative after leaving colleges.

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Education is incredibly strongly correlated with not voting republican.

Although at this point that might be more class/intelligence signalling than any principled belief in social welfare. You don't have to support the poor to realize that it's a bad idea to support a mad death cult full of people who are toxic to your career.

White college graduates are almost evenly split between the parties..

And what does the white highschool dropout split look like?

Obama lost the white non-college educated vote by 26 points to Romney, by the way.

> Obama lost the white non-college educated vote by 26 points to Romney, by the way.

I’m sorry what??

It was the complete opposite. Obama won the “high-school dropout” vote overwhelmingly. Had narrow majority amongst those who graduated and actually lost college graduate vote to Romney by 4%…

Romney also won every income bracket above 50k

Less educated people started voting for the Republicans in 2016 but not quite to the extent they voted for Obama.

In 2016 the split between college educated voters was 49-45 and the majority of white college graduates voted for Trump.

Some college educated white voters shifted to the Democrats in 2020 so the gap was a bit wider so I wouldn’t say “incredibly” unless you think 3% is incredible..

It’s a different matter for postgraduates though (62-37% in 2020)

> If all the people who attended university remained influenced by those ideas over the years. Most of the people with higher income and influential positions in society would be overwhelmingly left but that has not happened

Uh what? higher educational attainment correlates with voting Democratic https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/education...

Universities are also not the leftist indoctrination camps that right-wingers have deluded themselves into believing they are. There are lots of conservatives on campus, especially the faculty.

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