Alcibiades
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« on: May 03, 2023, 07:23:19 PM » |
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« edited: May 03, 2023, 07:26:21 PM by Alcibiades »
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One interesting thing I noticed looking at this (among many other very interesting things — this is a fantastic resource!) was that there was a lot more variation in how college towns and campuses voted back then. While the likes of Northwestern, Chicago, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa were already pretty solidly Democratic back then, many other universities saw Republicans win precincts covering at least part of campus — Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Notre Dame, Purdue, Michigan State, and pretty much all the other land grant universities.
Some of these are expected — Purdue and Notre Dame in particular (both of which Bush won comfortably) have long had conservative reputations on account of being engineering-focused and Catholic schools respectively — but whereas, for instance, Urbana-Champaign and Bloomington seem to be generic liberal state flagship college towns today, that evidently wasn’t the case back then.
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