Which State Universities Do You Most Associate With Republicanism?

[The Great Escape]

in honor of the Republican cities thread...the religious colleges and universities are too easy.


1. Texas A&M- Neal Boortz alma mater and guys at football games with Niedermeyer haircuts.

2. Clemson- Upstate SC is one of the most conservative places I have ever seen.

3. Auburn- I might be off base here. I have always had the impression that this school is very much to the right.

4. Ole Miss- They have disavowed Colonel Rebel and the Confederate flag. Is there change in the air? Then there is the whole Hotty Toddy thing.

5. Oregon State- Oregon State portrays itself as the anitdote to the other school in Eugene.

Please tell me if I am just totally wrong on any of these.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. University of Oklahoma

Rich kids who don't take into account anyone else when making decisions. Full of frats and sororities. God, that place is HELL ON EARTH, and most of their fans are republicans.
Duckie

[The Great Escape]

6. Is Oklahoma State University Even More Conservative?

It seems that the Ag and Engineering schools tend to be more to the right than State U's.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Well, OSU isn't just an ag and engineering school anymore...

It has everything. And the people are nicer and more open than OU. It's also a state school, but it's the better one in Oklahoma if you want an education in something besides sports, even though their sports teams are very good. Their football team is coming around, and they've always been great in basketball, baseball, and wrestling. But one thing they have that OU will never have is sportsmanship.
Duckie

[The Great Escape]

15. I Agree With You About The OSU Folks....

met alot of great OSU fans at the Sun Bowl in El Paso back in '87...it was hard to believe that Barry Sanders was a back up running back on that team!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. Welcome to DU!!

OSU has a habit of getting chummy with the other sides in all games except for OU fans, because they won't have it. They had a ball at the Cotton Bowl last year. I'm so proud of that team and my fellow Oklahomans who have shown how much class they have. OU and their fans wouldn't know sportsmanship or class if it bit them in the ass.
Duckie

[MichaelHarris]

2. A&M

for sure. My neice and nephew go there and hate it. I went to A&M also but a different campus, so it wasn't as bad.

[CO Liberal]

3. University of Northern Colorado (UNC)

Its president is former RepubliKKKan Senator Hank Brown.

[mstrsplinter326]

4. Bob Jones University n/t

[elehhhhna]

5. A&M is a cult--not a university

I've hired MBA's from A&M who couldn't compose short (one paragraph thank-you) business letters!

[GOPisEvil]

19. I'm so glad I didn't drink the kool-aid then!

Texas A&M Class of 1990 right here! :hi:

[flamingyouth]

24. We're in the same class

Although I'm from the commie pinko class of 1990 from the University of Washington! :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

25. I was a summer graduate.

August of 1990.

[flamingyouth]

26. I went full-on, blasting through those four years

Double-majored, attended all summer school sessions, worked like a maniac... they were some of the best years of my life, though.:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

28. I took one summer off.

Other than that, I went straight through, too.

[CO Liberal]

7. George Mason University

Home of Walter Williams, and angry Limbaugh fill-in who hates the world and doesn't seem to realize that he's Afican-American.

ON EDIT - I realize it isn't a state university, but is is a right-wing place. Just like Stanford, home of Walter Williams' West Coast counterpart, Thomas Sowell.

[The Great Escape]

10. I Thought GMU Was a State University?

[The Great Escape]

14. In Fact GMU Began as The Northern Virginia Branch of UVA

http://www.gmu.edu/vcenter/history.html

[CO Liberal]

16. I Stand Corrected

I thought is was one of those fake schools, like Jerry Falwell's Liberty U.

[JohnKleeb]

11. Hey my mom and my uncle are Mason made

Are you serious about Mason? I considered applying there before I decided to go to community college. Its in Fairfax which is like most of northern va.

[pstokely]

37. the creator of Landover Baptist got his masters there

nt

[JohnKleeb]

8. ok

Bob Jones university
Liberty university

[pstokely]

38. those aren't state schools

Bob Jones isn't even accredited

[Jack from Charlotte]

12. You already listed Clemson........ but add Florida State

FSU is getting ready to open a School of Chiropractic and has an ex-state senator, right-winger for a president. The Pres has no academic credentials at all and all 3 degrees from..... FSU. Was a Junior college president before FSU. He got the job because he was a football player under Bobby Bowden, their right-wing coach.

They're anti-intellectual and essentially a football program that has a college in order to be eligible to play college football.

[President Jesus]

13. definitely A&M

and Florida State.

Speaking of which, Bobby Bowden's campaign contributions:
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=TALLAHASSEE&st=FL&last=Bowden&first=Robert

Take a wild guess.

[The Great Escape]

18. Apparently, If You Punch a Cop You Can Still Play For Bobby Bowden...

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/29/Sports/FSU_lineman_reaches_p.shtml

[Twillig]

20. Oregon State!?

5. Oregon State- Oregon State portrays itself as the anitdote to the other school in Eugene.

Republicanism? The alma mater of Linus Pauling and Steven Jackson(D)?

<bash>
People with the money send thier kids to Eugene. That school has more money than Oprah. It's got the sugarest of sugar daddies spending the fruits of sweat-shop labor on their Athletic Department. </bash>

I never felt any kind of overt political biases when I attended OSU. Of course, that was during the Clinton years and the living was easy.

[The Great Escape]

32. I Think My Perception Comes From Some Articles I've Read...

that Oregon and Oregon State are about as polar opposite as any two universities can be. I guess I have always perceived Eugene to be a very liberal place. If OSU is the opposite, I probably just assumed that it had to be a very conservative place. Now, having only been to Oregon once in my life (and very briefly at that) I had nothing substantial to base it on. Their being opposites could have alot to do with things that don't have a thing to do with politics. Thanks for setting me straight!

[Taverner]

36. Hey!

True it's not the bastion of liberalism that U of O is, but its definitely not a conservative school. More mainstream dem than anything...

[Rainstorm]

21. University of Central Florida

50K students. Richard Nixon spoke at my graduation in 1973.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. University Of Southern California

aka the "University Of Spoiled Children". It's technically not a state-run school but private. Where UCLA is ultra liberal, USC is conservative. I know, I went to both and they couldn't be any different from each other.

[Richardo]

27. You still in SoCal, aint_no_life_nowhere?

UCLA '78 geezoid here (PoliSci, of course). ;-)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

29. Still part of the nice cozy horde, swarm, and crush of humanity

USC School of Cinema-Television and UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. M.A. (UCLA) in Film, 1986

[Cerridwen]

23. BYU - Brigham Young University - Utah n/t

[Fenris]

30. No offense to it's greatest graduate GOPisEvil

But it has to be A&M. I only went for a day and I felt freaked out.

[AspenRose]

31. My alma mater....Texas A&M

Imagine being a woman of color at Texas A&M in the 80's. Graduated May 1991 (class of 1990).

I could tell you stories, like when these two guys put crucified doves on the Students Against Apartheid protest shanty shack with spraypainted signs saying "there will be no peace until all n*ggers are dead" on the shack.

Or how the majority of the groundskeepers, cafeteria workers and custodians were black while I was going to school there.

I won't even go into some of the caracature fraternity t-shirts I saw.

In five years there I had one black professor. My hispanic professors were usually restricted to language professors.

One white girl in my dorm just flat-out told me I was at the wrong school. I had another one refuse to share a dorm room with me and demanded the resident advisor switch me with someone else. Often I was asked if I was there on ATHLETIC scholarship (as if I wasn't smart enough to be there).

Yep, I've got scars. But I met my husband there, so something good came out of it. And I graduated with my degree, which is the best revenge. I start grad school in three weeks.

[The Flaming Red Head]

33. LSU LSU LSU

LSU

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

34. Kansas State U, Nebraska State, Iowa State

Can't get more hard core than those puppies.

[Endangered Specie]

35. NCSU is slightly repo.

[ChoralScholar]

39. Believe it or not

University of Arkansas is not that bad. It's located in Fayetteville which is pretty diverse and liberal.

Now... Arkansas State Unversity in Jonesboro is a completely different story. You can read about Jonesboro on turnleft.com. Not a fun place.