Irvine is a bastion of rich white people and probably 90% Republican. UC Irvine is.. well... a UC. Like all college campus it's filled with moronic wannabe activist students and looney leftist professors. That said it's a pretty good school. My sister is an undergrad there.
I live in Irvine. I never realized that stuff like this was going on at UCI. I thought everyone just ate at In N Out and did their homework.