I'm born and raised in California and I've never voted Republican in my life. There's a really good article written about this subject by Jose Duarte: http://w

I'm born and raised in California and I've never voted Republican in my life. There's a really good article written about this subject by Jose Duarte: http://www.joseduarte.com/blog/i-was-denied-admission-to-a-phd-program-because-of-my-perceived-political-views-reflections-of-a-sellout-how-diversity-would-strengthen-social-science http://www.joseduarte.com/blog/i-was-denied-admission-to-a-p... I really recommend giving it a full read. The gist is that higher education is very, very clearly biased against particular groups. "Net detriment" is loaded, but "unfairly biased against us" is a not only reasonable, but demonstrably true conclusion. Negative reactions are warranted. There's a real problem here within education.