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by Steven Teles
“With each successive national election, the sorting of the parties by higher education proceeds with a force that seems inexorable. Most analysts have focused on the implications of this trend for elections and the coalitions of the two parties — a literature that Matt Grossmann and David Hopkins marry to a broader narrative about cultural change in their excellent book Polarized by Degrees. The deeper cultural divide underlying partisan sorting is what should make education polarization a major concern for those who run universities. A world in which university graduates are disproportionately represented in the Democratic Party is one in which Republican voters have powerful incentives to believe that, in J.D. Vance’s infamous phrase, ‘The universities are the enemy.'” (11/20/24)
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