Walter E. Williams Quotes


When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader.


Citations

Williams, Walter E. "Intellectual Diversity." Creators Syndicate, 2003.

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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.


Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams
  • Born: March 31, 1936
  • Died: December 2, 2020
  • Nationality: American
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Walter Edward Williams was an American economist, commentator, and academic.