Something new from me over at @HdxAcademy. It makes the simple (but as far as I know unresearched) point that top colleges and universities are located in areas that are, on average, profoundly liberal. And that matters for viewpoint diversity.https://heterodoxacademy.org/viewpoint-diversity-community-partisanship/ …
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For example, top ranked research universities are in a congressional district with an average PVI score of D+16.6, i.e. it voted 16.6 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. That's huge!pic.twitter.com/00SPxQ28GK
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Given the role of geographic/ideological sorting in America, as well as the impact of community socialization on partisan affiliation, it is almost certainly the case that this disparity contributes to the academy's lib/con imbalance.
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The good news: this suggests that the academy is not entirely responsible for its own political imbalance. We may be doing less "wrong" than our critics often claim. The bad news: if you DO want more cons in the academy, this is a massive and likely intractable obstacle.
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You seem to be assuming that place of living is random. However, people move around and it's definitely probable that biases in hiring contribute to hiring out of state personnel which results in the bias.
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