My guess is that the bulk of kids supporting Ron Paul would otherwise vote Democrat, particularly the heavy anti-war types.
As for College Professors? I have tilted with enough of them through the years to know whereof I speak.
So have I.
No, they are not adequate to take on a true Conservative, who understands the issues; but most undergraduates are easily snowed,
You should see what happens when they take on my girls. As a primer, here is a paper they wrote at the ages of 12 & 13. I think you'll derive from it my opinion of most college "education."
when their imagined role models are shown to have clay feet--inconsistency.
Frankly, the professors spend more time throwing unsupported barbs founded in popular truisms than by comparing facts. Facts demand citation, and that takes actually reading what conservative authors have written or said. It's much easier to engage in character assassination by gauzy presumption.
I was very impressed!--although I would offer a slightly different slant on some aspects of the decline--though certainly not disparaging their massed details of the dynamics of that decline.
You deserve to be proud--assuming that you played the role of a Conservative parent--as from your context, one would certainly assume. Well done!
William Flax