A few thoughts on the discussion. Where can the study be found in it's original report form describing sample and analytical methodologies?
If you look at a university that is comprised of of several different colleges you will probably find that liberals predominate in some while conservatives predominate in others. Even within a college the various discaplines attract different sorts of people. Where I went the economics dept. shared a building with sociology and poli sci depts. There was certainly no shortage of conservatives in the economics dept. The sociology students thouhgt of us as jack booted thugs. All of us were part of the School of Social & Behavioral Sciences. The School of Business probably wasn't lacking conservatives either.
Is regular church attendance solely the domain of conservatives? I know many liberals who attend church service quite regularly. The Grand Puubah of conservatives, Ronald Reagan, was not a church goer. I doubt many of the top officials in his administration were either. Someone mentioned it was evangelical Christians that suffered discrimination. The same is not true of mainline denominations and Catholics? They all worship the same dead carpenter from Galalei, don't they?
Passion runs high in university life. The paper was always criticized for being too conservative when I was in school and it seems that hasn't changed. It's a schoolyard after all. Sometimes the kids play rough.
