Young Republicans: Survey says: Undergrads swing right

The American Prowler ^ | 11/10/2003 | Charles Rousseaux

[RKV]

Like the Who said - The Kids Are Alright!

[My2Cents]

I suppose it only makes sense....College kids are rebelling against the "values" and opinions of their ex-Hippie parents.

[nickcarraway]

ping

[Prime Choice]

How can this be? According to all the Left-wing papers, we're all a bunch of in-bred, buck-toothed, easily-led, know-nothing white crackers.

...who only through some fluke happen to make a buttload of money.

Can't be our college educations, critical thinking and love of liberty. Oh no...can't be that.

[MegaSilver]

I suppose it only makes sense....College kids are rebelling against the "values" and opinions of their ex-Hippie parents.

I'm a college student and a Republican. My parents were raised Catholic and Methodist, both Republicans. Neither one of them ever switched party loyalties, and they raised me Baptist and Republican. And I have remained steadily Republican since I was old enough to know the difference.

Of course, my parents never shoved me around or told me what to do. I never rebelled, but that's only because I never had anything to rebel against. :)

[My2Cents]

Good for you MS....

I'm a BabyBoomer; raised in the San Francisco Bay Area; was in high school during the turbulent late-60s (Haight-Ashbury, Vietnam, Hippie movement, the works); raised by nominal Republicans; one was a non-fellowshipping Catholic, the other a non-fellowshipping Lutheran -- they agreed to send to send their kids to a Methodist church, although they didn't attend themselves; gave my life to Christ in college in the early-70s, attended a Baptist Church, but am now a non-Charismatic Calvinist attending a Pentecostal church; inherited a Republican tendency from my parents -- my first vote was for Richard Nixon -- but became a dedicated conservative reading National Review while in high school, and watching the rise of Ronald Reagan as governor here in California -- I'm much more conservative than either of my parents, who still live in the Bay Area. As a youth, I rebelled against my peer group.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Good news!

[King Nothing]

Thanks for the ping. You would be surprised just how many young conservatives are in the closet so to speak. My history/government class antics usually get a positive responce from kids that will come up to me later and say "I agree with you, man.. i just didnt want to get out in the frey." A small group of my friends and I are fighting all the liberal crap in class and slowly adding members to the "rebellion" as we call it.

Now excuse me while I shamelessly plug my Young Conservative PING list thread

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[BunnySlippers]

I have noticed that most of the young people hired at our firm (finance) are conservative politcally.

[rwfromkansas]

Interesting.....a Calvinist atttending a Charismatic church.

As for being conservative, my parents are pretty conservative, so I really have not rebelled against anything either.

[shteebo]

I recently visited my son in college. His peer group spends lots of time on the internet and zero time watching broadcast news. While they are not terribly world focused (as I expected) they do seem to know a wacko when they see one. I was encouraged.

[cookcounty]

As much leftist propaganda as college kids are subjected to, it doesn't take hold because the crackpots like Chomsky are so obviously ignorant, that the kids just laugh (but not out loud 'til they have their final grade!)

Meantime, the oldsters are glued to the Jennings-Brokaw-Rather slickly packaged left-wing combine, and are easily bamboozled. The kids don't watch the "main-line news."

[Mich0127]

Yeah, and anyone who is still a socialist/liberal at 40 has no brain...i guess they left that out

[Mich0127]

also pleases me to read that college students are starting to think for themselves

[MegaSilver]

As a youth, I rebelled against my peer group.

If you're going to rebel against something, that's usually a good thing to rebel against. I suppose I could've rebelled and become liberal in my youth... in high school, I attended a fairly conservative Christian preparatory school. (I think I can proudly say that none of us in that school backed Gore in '00.) Of course, since that was by my own choice, I didn't really want to rebel. :)

[John Will]

Gives me hope for the future.

[My2Cents]

You have a lot of good sense, MS. I have more confidence in the path your generation will take this nation than I have in my own.

Regards.

[MegaSilver]

Gives me hope for the future.

Heh... our teachers were great, too. My social studies teacher that year told us that her husband said, "If Gore wins, we are moving to Canada!" I reminded her that on the bright side even if Gore won, at least Clinton would be out of there.

One of my teachers did vote for Ralph Nader that year, but he did say that he thought Bush would do a much better job presiding fairly than Gore would.

A few students endorsed Patrick Buchanan, but on the whole, Bush was clearly the candidate of our school among both faculty and students. Gore-bashing was an almost daily ritual in our geography and speech classes that fall.