They found that students at more affluent colleges held more conservative views on capital-gains taxes, unemployment, and other economic issues than those at less affluent colleges — whether or not they were themselves rich.
Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican, held hearings in 2007, during which he asked whether affluent colleges were using their endowments to help students.
About two dozen of the nation's more affluent colleges, like Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, capped the amount of home equity that they would consider available for tuition.
Choreographers replaced dark-skinned, inexpensive-looking professional dancers who danced to feed their families with fair, slim, affluent college girls who danced for fun and fame.
Those "people of like mind" include the affluent, college-educated residents of suburbs around Denver, Philadelphia, Raleigh-Durham, Orlando, Boston and Washington - the epicenters of Mr. Obama's fight for Colorado, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire and Virginia.
For votes and fund-raising alike, Democrats in recent elections have relied increasingly on affluent, college-educated voters who turned away from Republicans over social issues and Iraq.
He is mostly avoiding the suburban communities that are home to more affluent, college-educated white Americans and the urban areas that have more ethnically diverse populations.
From 23m57s: Check your privilege In this scene, affluent college kid Jessie enters his new friend's trailer and finds a heavily pregnant woman swigging beer and feeding children from a cardboard box of pretzels.
The other schools at the top of that first list were mostly suburban schools whose strong AP programs were the result of having affluent, college-oriented parents, not any great plan for social change.
As a result, the Republican party can only hold a majority in the House if it wins in a critical number of the suburban districts where affluent, college-educated, moderate voters live.
The last time the scores were recalibrated was in 1941, when only 10,000 students took the exam, most of them well-educated, affluent, college-bound white men from the Northeast.
