Opinion - Where Liberals Live

From the J-Walk blog comes this interesting report. Click here to read the entire blog post and to see the links to the resources used.

Left-Wing Conspiracy?

Larry Beinart writes: Dispatches From the War on Stupidity .

It is now a conventional complaint on the Right that university faculties are dominated by liberals. It's true.

A Washington Post story reported on a study that said: "72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative ... The disparity is even more pronounced at the most elite schools, where, according to the study, 87 percent of faculty are liberal and 13 percent are conservative."

Naturally, Right-wingers claim this is a vast left-wing conspiracy.

His conclusion:
A university faculty is home to people whose profession is thinking. To survey such a population is a valid way to select for people who think, as opposed to a random sample of the general population.

From that point of view, we see that among people who think, 72% are liberal and 15% conservative. Among elite thinkers, the portion of liberals goes up 87%.

Thinking leads to liberalism. Think about it.