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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Re: (for speaker) Who says religion isn't important in America?
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 09:43:07 EST
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> Despite  the ravings of speaker to animals, object-related professionals
> like physicists and engineers tend to be the most conservative voters in
> the  USA  and  probably  strongly  supported  Ronald Reagan while people
> related professionals tend to be the most  liberal  and  probably  voted
> against him.

Perhaps my experience is atypical, but I've met very few Democratic
doctors or lawyers and very few Republican scientists.  I suspect we
have an unwarranted generalization here...

					David Rubin

P.S. My experience is not limited to an academic environment, but is
rather based on
		(1) My graduated classmates,
		(2) My summer employment in both private industry and
		    with the DoD
as well as in academia.