tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7085195159661027971.post6400532604445513319..comments2024-03-15T16:14:36.387-04:00Comments on Just the social facts, ma'am: Not just HarvardDavid Weakliemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02336229317604663975noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7085195159661027971.post-90306957469182399102013-10-26T15:30:03.493-04:002013-10-26T15:30:03.493-04:00Yes, there was more ideological diversity within t...Yes, there was more ideological diversity within the parties than there is today. But the Republicans were a predominantly conservative party, which means that students with conservative inclinations could comfortably settle down somewhere in the "establishment." That's not possible anymore: those who don't adopt prevailing views consciously define themselves in opposition to those views. David Weakliemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02336229317604663975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7085195159661027971.post-3856896625429382642013-10-23T14:04:28.250-04:002013-10-23T14:04:28.250-04:00The overwhelming support for Roosevelt in the Sout...The overwhelming support for Roosevelt in the South in 1932 suggests that the correct dichotomy for campus preference, at least then, is not liberal/conservative, but Democratic/Republican. That would be consistent with the corresponding overwhelming support for Hoover at elite private universities, which (based on my expert judgment) were then more dominated by what came to be called the Establishment, a traditionally Republican cohort that comprised both what would today be considered liberal and conservative wings.Earle Millernoreply@blogger.com