Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by David French, Jonah Goldberg and morning

Dispatch editor Declan Garvey. We will be talking about an interesting study on college students,

ideological diversity, demographic diversity, and what do I mean about the future of our politics?

rethinking the relations with the Saudis as OPEC decides to cut two million barrels a day in the face of Joe Biden and his administration

and lastly got to check it on the midterms and the interview that John Fetterman the Democratic

Pennsylvania candidate did with NBC News

Let's jump right in David you are actually the first one to sort of see this study and

and say that it was worth our time if you will. Do you want to introduce why you immediately glommed on?

Yeah, there's a study we'll put in the show notes called Diverse and Divided a Political Demography of American Elite Students

that really is I think illuminating that what it did is it took a look at information and survey data from the foundation for individual rights and expression fire.

I want to always say foundation for individual rights and education, but it's expanded it's growing

and it took a look at the the demography of American Elite Students in other words these students who go to the

top ranked cohort of universities and

what it found was this is not shouldn't be a surprise really to anybody, but to actually get real numbers here

is that there is a massive disparity between

conservative and liberal students there is a massive disparity between Republicans and Democrats

and that while there is real diversity on a lot of different ranks from race to ethnicity

there is a overwhelming sort of disproportionate diversity on sexuality that liberal arts colleges for example

are the least politically diverse but they have high sexual diversity with nearly 40% of students

LGBT and it's just a very interesting snapshot into the feeder schools into a lot of Americans

elite professions and I have thoughts Sarah on why this is and what kind of effect that this has and doesn't have

but it was also noting that the that Christians that conservatives tend to cluster in red state flagship universities

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