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.