Agonized-Statism
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« on: October 20, 2020, 02:23:54 PM » |
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A good statistic to look at would be the fields in which people get PhDs. I would suspect them to vote more conservatively going back in time, when there was a stronger partisan divide by class and there were more PhDs in hard science at a time when things like racial science and Social Darwinism were widely accepted. Your average American intellectual in the 19th and early 20th centuries was extremely Eurocentric, to the point of overt racism, and even fashioned himself a European aristocrat. It shows in things like some wealthy Americans' stupid oratorical style at the time, which is where we got things like the now dead Transatlantic accent. With progressivism becoming the norm, academia has taken a more deconstructionist approach to tradition (especially in the soft sciences) and there's way more financially struggling PhDs who would appreciate some social programs. There's always exceptions, of course- I know an IO psychologist who's voted Republican all their life.
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