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College Students
Moving to the Left
While college professors seem to be moving to the political right, according to a national survey released by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute in early 2009, college students are moving to the left.
As liberal views sharply increased among college freshmen, "middle of the road" views dropped from about 53% to 43%. 
Why are professors moving to the right? They are now being drawn from the era when there was a conservative move in the country (the left third of the graph).
In 2008, college freshmen appeared to be reacting largely to the wars, and economic and employment problems that started during the Bush administration.
Note that the liberal-conservative disparity was even greater for college freshmen during the Vietnam war era (on the left side of the graph).
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