AHC: Change the main political affiliation of students.

Hi all.

Today, at least in the west, students are generally more left-wing than the wider population. With a POD no later than 1961, is it possible to have the reverse be true - the majority of students being more right-wing than the population at large?

I've been thinking about this a while, but all I've been able to come up with is to have more hard science and economics students, who at least economically tend to be more right wing, in my experience.

Any thoughts?
 
Hi all.

Today, at least in the west, students are generally more left-wing than the wider population. With a POD no later than 1961, is it possible to have the reverse be true - the majority of students being more right-wing than the population at large?

I've been thinking about this a while, but all I've been able to come up with is to have more hard science and economics students, who at least economically tend to be more right wing, in my experience.

Any thoughts?

Have the socialists be more successful in the early 1900s.
 
Students are by their nature anti-establishment, even the apolitical ones. The obvious answer is 'make the establishment left wing'.
 
Students in the early 1900s were dominantly right-wing in Europe, with some exceptions. Prolong said tendency might prove tricky however with increased possibilities for working class children to get into the universities and great possibilities for women. One way, with England as en example, is to have more socialist rule in the city councils of London. Battersea had a socialist rule in the early 1900s with the result of bitter battles against London university students in the Brown-Dog riots. Increasing the magnitude and frequency of said confrontations and you might permanent the anti-feminist and anti working class mentality among the students.
 
It is hard, but if you could have populism (as in "Latin american" populism) triumph in the west, AND these populists government could present themselves as "the Left", student opposition would be considered a right wing opposition. It is what happens nowadays in Venezuela, and what happened in Argentina during the first peronist governments (1946-1955). It's not that the students changed their views or were predominantly right-wing (in fact, many were socialists or liberals), but given the polarization of society created by these populists government, any opposition was presented as a right wing opposition, and students depicted as elitists who were against the true interests of the people, defended by the populist leader.
 
The Nazis defeat the USSR. Counterculture in the Nazi-American Cold War is fascist in nature. Student protests outside "Jewish" banks become widespread.

That's the best I got. :p
 

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Have your country of choice fall under the influence of a right-wing dictatorship that strictly controls education. That way schools would just brainwash students into right-wing views and punish anybody that thought differently.
 
In the US at least, a lot of the current crop of college professors are religiously leftist, as many have their same roots in the 60s counterculture - have more right wing or traditionalists go into teaching, thus diluting leftist influence among college staff, and this may at least make college students more varied in terms of ideology.
 
Could having a bigger military influence in colleges, in the form of things like ROTC or the OTC/TA being much more popular, have an influence too?

As far as avoiding the assosciation of counterculture with Marxism, would earlier unveiling of communist atrocities be possible? I'm thinking particularly of mass killings by the USSR.
 
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