The Boomer generation split into red and blue factions over the Vietnam War and many other things. Which is why the split continues. The blues dominate academia because they followed in the footsteps of the radicals who already controlled education when education began its vast post-war expansion.
Here is an interesting Gallup chart, regarding support for the Vietnam war, and age groups.
LOL, you don’t have to tell me...I was there. I was liberal then. I actually knew and worked with Students for a democratic society 9when I was a social worker in New York. 1969-70 Bernadette dorn, Mark Rudd etc.used me to get drivers licenses when they went under ground.(although I didn’t know who they were at the time...I had come back to california and someone must have given them my address.)