Fewer freshmen than ever identify as politically centrist, reflecting the overall partisan polarization of the country, a new survey shows.
A little more than 42 percent of first-year students who participated in the annual American Freshman Survey indicated they were “middle-of-the-road” on political issues. This is the lowest percentage of moderate students the survey — a product of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the University of California, Los Angeles — has identified since it launched more than 50 years ago. In the late 1990s, the proportion of moderate students hovered above 50 percent…
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