True story: I was apolitical for the most part until I went to law school. It was at law school that I saw how flaming stalinist liberals are about any divergence of opinion. Speaking out in class against the PC line was death to your grades and would get you shouted at by spittle-mouthed raging libs. That drove not into being a Republican per se, but definitely a staunch conservative. That was twenty some years ago.
Rutgers Law in Newark, eh? More than a few Republicans have been formed at Rutgers Law...