A poll from the Art & Science Group released this month showed 28 percent of students ruled out a school due to the politics of the state the college is in. Among those who excluded certain schools, 75 percent of liberals avoided ones they saw as too far to the right on abortion rights or LGBTQ issues, while 66 percent of conservatives crossed off colleges in states they labeled as too Democratic, too liberal on LGBTQ issues or too lenient on crime.
Texas was the most frequently excluded state, with 31 percent of those who eliminated schools based on state saying it was a dealbreaker for them. The other states that were ruled out by 15 percent or more were Alabama, California, Florida and New York.
Well obviously. If I was looking to go out of state for college, why would I pick a state where healthcare is becoming significantly harder to get in a country where it’s already prohibitively expensive and complicated for many?
Conservatives’ collective fear of catching gayness is cute, but attending school in states with regressive healthcare can be life threatening and should absolutely be taken seriously.
Or a state where I might be hate crimed or forced to carry a fetus to birth.
Texas was the most frequently excluded state, with 31 percent of those who eliminated schools based on state saying it was a dealbreaker for them. The other states that were ruled out by 15 percent or more were Alabama, California, Florida and New York.
Imagine ruling out California or NY because the state isn’t authoritarian enough. Both offer experiences that substantially don’t exist anywhere else (especially NY) and you won’t go there because a queer kid might be in your class and it’s not ok to pick on them. Holy shit, we can’t have that!
66 percent of conservatives crossed off colleges in states they labeled as too Democratic
Do they think that because ‘Democrats’ are bad that Democracy must be bad? Is this really a thing that the Red Caps are actually saying they are against Democracy? And… are they are going to vote on it?
Republicans have been quoted more than once and by more than one person saying; The USA is not a Democracy but a Republic. It’s weird.
It’s so insane the mental gymnastics people do so their party name aligns with what they call their government type. Meanwhile, we both directly vote on issues like a Democracy and elect people to represent us like a Republic.
But if we are being totally honest, because of the disparaging wealth gap, it’s really an Oligarchy. Run by a few corporate personhoods.
No, not at all. They think democracy is bad because it can lead to Democrats
No wonder marketing works so well on morons.
All Democrats should quit the Democrat Party and instead form the Tough Guys Party.
Why would you vote Republican when you can vote for the Tough Guys?!
Oh no! What will Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, Harvey Mudd, UCLA, and other California schools do!
I had the same thought about Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, Tufts, Emerson, etc.
higher education in general is in decline, and that’s on purpose
As a college grad adult, I will not move to a state that I deem too backwards, and that’s probably more than half of them. I’m already stuck in Iowa, and if I wasn’t married to someone not looking to move, I would be gone. It sickens me knowing where my state taxes are going.
I don’t think there’s any reliable way to get the stats on this, but I’d be curious to know the partisan split on the students making that call vs. the parents. I bet the “that’s too liberal” crowd skews towards parents who “ain’t gonna pay for that shit” moreso than the students themselves rejecting it.
