What I've seen is that "liberal" thinkers follow the more traditional routes into higher thinking and gain Ph.D's, becomming part of the Academic world.
Conservatives are more likely to become politicalized and join or startup so called "institutes" that compete directly with established academia. I personally think this is a massive lapse in judgement in the by those with a Conservative mindset. It weakens Universities by removing most conservative lines of thinking out of the teaching/research environment and places them, more often then not, into the hands of special interest groups.
Course, I usually dismiss everything that comes out of an "institute" outright.
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