Studies of the political orientations of 1, 055 college students revealed that the plurality of students in an eastern, big-city, private university was liberal, whereas in a state-supported, southern college, the plurality was conservative
Orientations were independent of the student' s region of origin, and the trends were much more pronounced in seniors than in beginning students
The political orientations of college students are more similar to the political orientations of their parents when the students start college than when the students are seniors.