As you will remember I predicted that one of the effects I saw coming out of the MAGAt world’s hysterical obsession with controlling women, which masquerades as the anti-abortion movement, would be that it would have a significant effect on healthcare in Red states, but also it would have a great influence on the college choices made by graduating high school seniors. Well, as predicted, it is happening. What I had not fully appreciated is how much this rightwing power play would have on young men and their college choices, and how it would affect the choices of conservative students. Here, confirming all this is the actual factual data. The net net of what the Republicans have done to the Red states they control is to severely damage their future and their social wellbeing. But what this is also telling us is that the schism between Democrats and Republicans is starting in the teen years, and that means it will go on into the next generation.
A quarter of prospective college students say they’d shun a school in a state whose politics or policies they abhor, a recent survey finds.
The finding is true whether a student says they’re a liberal, moderate or conservative, per the report, published by higher-ed consultancy Art & Science Group.
In a separate surveyby Gallup and the Lumina Foundation published Thursday, 72% of college students said that the reproductive health laws in their school’s state affected their decision to stay enrolled.
Among adults ages 18-59 without a college degree, 60% said such laws would affect their decision to attend a specific college or university.
Why it matters: Americans are choosing where to live and whom to associate with based on politics, exacerbating polarization.
And, judging by these polls, that process is beginning at a young age.
As free speech battles play out on campuses nationwide, growing imbalances in the politics of the student body could further stifle healthy debate.
Driving the news: In a poll of 1,865 college-bound high school seniors conducted this winter by Art […]
