Thomas Sowell Quotes
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Sowell, Thomas. Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays. Hoover Institution Press, 2006, p. 11.
When the Republican Party was first founded, they had a disproportionate share of educated people. This was generally true until the Great Depression and the Hoover administration. After the Republican “Southern Strategy in the 1960s, the “solid” Democratic South became Republicans and drove the party far to the right. The party leaders began to scorn intellectuals and scientists. By 2000, a large majority of the most educated Americans were voting Democratic rejecting the extremism of the then Republican Party.
Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.