While pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted colleges across the country, one institution of higher learning in California could only muster one single protester for the cause.
That’s because Cal-State University at Bakersfield is too blue-collar and conservative, says one political science professor.
“This is largely a blue collar school where students are more concerned with getting their degrees and getting on with their lives than anything else,” said CSUB professor Mark Martinez to KGET-TV.
The Cal-State system was specifically designed to serve students who live in California and can attend classes while still living at home.
“It’s primarily a commuter school, too, and that has an effect on campus culture and therefore the tendency toward activism,” he explained.
“Bakersfield is a conservative city, and that plays a role,” Martinez added.
KGET spoke to the single, solitary protester who held up a poster with the…
