from the chronicle of higher education, a nov. 14 article by shannon najmabadi and katherine knott : campuses tend to be viewed as enclaves of liberalism<u+2014>bubbles or oases, depending on your view, set apart from the rest of america. in the counties that are home to public flagship universities, only nine favored donald j. trump over hillary clinton, according to a chronicle analysis of voting data. in the 49 counties included in the analysis, mrs. clinton beat mr. trump, on average, by about 18 percentage points. in counties with a public flagship, the percentage of voters favoring mrs. clinton was 11 points, on average, higher than her statewide percentage. . . . among the places with large disparities between the vote in counties with flagships and the rest of the state was the home of the university of north carolina at chapel hill, orange county. there, mrs. clinton received 74 percent of the county-level vote, even though she lost the state overall, winning 46.7 percent of the vote. . . . the university of maryland at college park, in prince george <u+2019>s county, is a striking example, too. the county gave mrs. clinton 89.3 percent of its vote, and mr. trump just 8.3 percent. at the state level, mrs. clinton still won<u+2014>but by a significantly slimmer margin. she got 60.5 percent of the maryland vote.
notable & quotable: the ivory tower voted clinton - wsj
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