Why so many liberal professors?

In the book, I mentioned how liberal the professoriate is and how that might affect your education. Some new research suggests just why the professoriate is so liberal. It claims that just as few men go into nursing because it is perceived as an occupation for women, so is academic life typecast as a place for liberals and hence unattractive to conservatives. You can find more details here, but the research leads to this interesting conclusion: “the more conservatives complain about academia’s liberalism, the more likely it’s going to remain a bastion of liberalism.”