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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 8
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    Wonder what liberalizing effect college has. I suspect it’s simply meeting people different from the crowd you grew up with for the first time. For me college was pretty much when I first met kids whose dads *didn’t* all work in the steel or automotive industries.https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1325412562536685568 …

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    Chris Arnade  🐢 @Chris_arnade
    Was waiting for more data (don't trust exit polls), but looking like Trump got larger share of some minority groups across country (Lumbee Tribe, Mexican Americans in S Texas, black men, Some Asian groups in CA), often from low starting base Unifying them is all are non-college
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      2. Tomas Pueyo‏ @tomaspueyo Nov 8
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        👇https://twitter.com/tomaspueyo/status/1325038206832631809 …

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        Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo
        Theory on the US urban–rural divide in voting for Dems vs GOP: Urbanites interact with a lot of different strangers all the time. That means they want regulations to address the new coordination pbms that constantly emerge. [1/ pic.twitter.com/qBIveE8mQb
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      3. Ray Bamford‏ @raybamford Nov 8
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        I'd like to see this done on the county level. I would expect this to illustrate the urban-rural divide even more strongly.

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      1. mutual‏ @mutual_ayyde Nov 8
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        there's also the self-selection factor - people who go to college are generally more open then those who stayhttps://www.niskanencenter.org/the-density-divide-urbanization-polarization-and-populist-backlash/ …

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      2. Eric‏ @PlagueofCustom Nov 8
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        Feel this is getting at is just social network effects - people will tend to gravitate toward what the rest of their social circle believes. GOP voters drink Budweiser overwhelmingly, for instance - it’s part of an entire cultural existence, not abstract ideology.

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      3. Eric‏ @PlagueofCustom Nov 8
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        And you need qualitative analysis that can be used to understand how people formulate their beliefs, rather than just the backward-looking snapshot of who voted and where.

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      1. Kai Vert‏ @kai_vert Nov 8
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        College had the opposite effect on me: From working class/urban/immigrant background - Yes, met more well off people But “equity” indoctrination was real, pushing race/sex privilege is disgusting Bias on-campus made me question everything Entered liberal, leave conservative

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      1. meriliarjakas‏ @meriliarjakas Nov 8
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        Counter-argument. Universities can be much more homogenous than prim/sec ed, because while almost everyone goes to a school, only some of them go to college. Selection bias for people whose parents are well-off, one or both parents have a uni ed, interested in knowledge.

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      1. wobblewoof‏ @wobblewoof Nov 8
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        wobblewoof Retweeted Mencius Moldbugman

        related:https://twitter.com/moldbugman/status/1298155704767795203 …

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        Mencius Moldbugman @moldbugman
        There are two moments when young people in the West find themselves in new environments where new connections outnumber old connections: when they move to a new city for college, and again when they move to a new city for work.
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      2. Tim Burkhard‏ @EqualEffrontery Nov 8
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        I don’t think universities are inherently “liberalizing“ by the nature of their institution, but they are a gateway and gatekeeper of elite culture. Right now, that culture is generally “leftist”.

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      3. Tim Burkhard‏ @EqualEffrontery Nov 8
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        But that’s not the same as “liberal”

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