Is it any wonder?

That people who teach at the level of schools and universities, particularly the ones who teach in the Arts and Humanities, are more liberal? Conservatives want the kind of government that will choke even further the funding of education. Conservatives are responsible for the precipitous drop for public funding of research in these areas, and for the fact that teachers are so underpaid, because you have to tax people if you want the goodies.

Texas is 49th in the country for public funding of education. 49 out of 50. (Mississippi is 50).

49th in education, number one in executions. Could there be a connection here?

Returning to academia, no one is stopping conservative people from becoming teachers and professors, just like no one is stopping liberals from becoming Donald Trump. It just doesn't happen that often. Conservatives don't really believe in funding things like education in history, fine arts, foreign languages. And you expect the people who teach those things to vote Republican, against their self-interest? How many Donald Trumps vote to have their taxes raised?

And even on campuses, these aren't the people with the real power. Like everywhere else, money rules the roost. Business schools, law schools, places researching the prozacs and ritalins of tomorrow - these places have the money and the power.

Arts and Humanities departments are so squeezed, they often can't even hire new people when an old one retires. Their buildings and equipment are out of date, their staff overworked. Their salaries, don't even talk about it.

If the average American middle class Republican really wants the life of a history professor, I challenge them to try and do it for a year. That'll have them running back to their comfortable jobs and their multi-car garages.

Over and matt.