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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew study: highly educated Democrats are now way more liberal than the rest of the party
New study: highly educated Democrats are now way more liberal than the rest of the partyby Jeff Stein at Vox
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/27/11511136/democratic-elite-age
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Twenty years ago, there weren't that many elites who held uniformly liberal positions, and, similarly, there weren't that many people with low levels of education who held consistently liberal positions.
Then something changed. College-educated Americans became increasingly persuaded to agree with the typically left-leaning position on a whole range of questions, and the percentage of "consistently liberal" college grads skyrocketed from 5 percent to 24 percent in two decades, according to Pew's study.
Over that same period of time, those with lower education levels also moved to the left but by only by a little bit. Of Americans who only finished high school, the percentage who hold "consistently liberal" beliefs only rose from 1 percent to 5 percent.
"Highly educated adults particularly those who have attended graduate school are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values," Pew's report says. "And these differences have increased over the past two decades."
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New study: highly educated Democrats are now way more liberal than the rest of the party (Original Post)
applegrove
Apr 2016
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villager
(26,001 posts)1. Hence the desperate need to make education as inaccessible to as many Americans as possible. nt
Skink
(10,122 posts)2. And those with music degrees lean toward Socialism
Democratic socialism
applegrove
(118,758 posts)3. No wonder the GOP want post secondary education to be too expensive.
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)4. And some Dems.