Most Student Loan Borrowers are Republican or Independent

The claim that student loan borrowers are largely liberal is a myth.

There is a longstanding cultural stereotype in the U.S. that politically, student loan borrowers largely identify as democrats. The media has gone to great lengths to reinforce and exaggerate this claim. Analysis of years worth of Pew and Gallup data, however, reveals that this is not true. In fact, the data shows that today, most student loan borrowers identify as either republican or independent. With 45 million federal borrowers, and 10–15 million private…