Is there a correlation between school "popularity" and political views?

[Associate Justice PiT]

I don't know where the hell all of you went but this is what popularity looked like at my school:

1. SJWs
2. Ben Shapiro Republicans
3. Berniecrats
4. Libertarians
5. The "I like Bernie" crowd that does not follow politics
6. Trump Republicans
7. People who made fun of Gary Johnson despite not knowing anything about Aleppo
8. Socialists/Druggies/Anarchists (tied)
9. Moderate Republicans (did not exist)
10. Moderate Democrats (see #9)

     This post gets at something important; i.e. that most high school students hold extreme views. I would suspect that popularity would have less to do with what those views are in any sense that Atlas would understand and more to do with how aggressively edgy you can be with them.

[HillGoose]

Nah i dont think popularity is easy to quantify. I was popular in high school but tried to make everyone hate me anyway lmao

[Bidenworth2020]

I would imagine most "popular" high school kids have extremely libertarian social views (legalize all drugs, abortion until 9 months, etc) and don't care about economics. It's hard to be the most edgy with economics, as no one cares too much at that age. But honestly, I think a lot of the popular boys supported Hillary just so the girls wouldn't get mad, lol.

[HillGoose]

I would imagine most "popular" high school kids have extremely libertarian social views (legalize all drugs, abortion until 9 months, etc) and don't care about economics. It's hard to be the most edgy with economics, as no one cares too much at that age. But honestly, I think a lot of the popular boys supported Hillary just so the girls wouldn't get mad, lol.

Honestly that was part of my motivation for supporting Obama in 2012 when i was a junior in HS. All the girls were pretty much for Obama excluding the ultra religious white ones. My school was like 85% female and probably 50-60% black as well so it was very Democratic leaning. It would have eliminated most of my dating options to get labeled a racist or misogynist lmao

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I was in high school during the '88 campaign, and I was physically assaulted because I supported Dukakis. So imagine my surprise when the results of the mock election came, and Dukakis won my class 19 to 2 - while Bush overwhelmingly won the other classes.