The Chronicle of Higher Education

How Higher Ed Helped Flip 5 States in the 2020 Election

November 16, 2020

What did the presence of a college in a county say about how that county voted in 2020? To answer that question, we zeroed in on Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — the five states that moved from Donald J. Trump in 2016 to Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2020, and looked at what happened in the counties that had colleges in them. Here’s what we found.

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