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A new study from the Art & Science Group discovered that nearly 25% of high school seniors ruled out schools based “solely” on the politics, policies, and “legal situation” in the state where the school is located.
The study found that making this type of choice was not limited to one category of political leanings. It was statistically true for liberals, moderates, and conservatives alike.
Clay Travis, founder of Outkick and cohost of the conservative talk show, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, joined America’s Newsroom on the Fox News Channel to discuss these findings.
Bill Hemmer, who cohosts the show with Dana Perino, said that according to the study, it looks like kids aren’t choosing schools based on the football team or engineering school but on what the state legislature is doing on issues like guns or abortion instead.
“I think it’s part and parcel of what we discussed surrounding Covid, red getting redder and blue getting bluer and you want to go to places where you’re going to feel more welcome.
“I wanna give you a little anecdote. You guys know I go on the road for college football and when I was a kid in college the idea that you were, let’s say in New York or California, that you would ever send your kid to the University of Alabama or Ole Miss or Tennessee; that you would voluntarily send your kids out of state to a big-time SEC school, was crazy. No one would’ve ever done it.
“Now when I walk around these SEC campuses, they are loaded up with kids from LA, Chicago, New York City, and everywhere. I think what it reflects is a deep desire.
“Look the Sunbelt now has a population of 62%…the overall United States population now resides in a Sun Belt city. This is a reflection of that and I think Covid just made it more of an issue.
“People going on these tours on campuses…I’ve got a kid who is starting to take these tours in the south and they’re all from the northeast, from the Chicago area, from the west.
“Their parents are fed up, and they want them to go to a place more welcoming, maybe more welcoming to a diversity of viewpoints.
“We talk about diversity of color. I think what’s far more important is diversity of perspective and many parents are making those decisions when it comes to where their kids go to school,” Travis said.
On the other hand, Intelligent.com, reports that upwards of 90% of Florida high school seniors disagree with Governor Ron DeSantis’ education policies and more than 10% of them do not plan to go to a public Florida university.
As you may have guessed, the survey found that liberals were most likely to rule out colleges in Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Florida, Mississippi, and Texas.
They consider these places “too Republican” concerning abortion laws, racial equity, the ability to get a gun, and LGBTQ laws.
Conservatives, naturally, ruled out colleges in the country’s most liberal states, California and New York.
