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by TimorousBestie 109 days ago
https://www.univstats.com/staffs/

There’s roughly 1.5 million post-secondary instructors in the United States, roughly half full-time.

Estimates of conservative faculty range between 7-15%. (FIRE, where the 15% figure comes from, probably overestimates due to their conservative bias.)

So approximately 50,000 to 110,000 conservative faculty. You’re off by a couple orders of magnitude.

There’s over 500 faculty working at Liberty University alone, never mind the other, larger Evangelical Christian schools.

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Should've added to my comment, aside from the explicitly conservative colleges/unis, and seminaries. Filter those out, and how many do you have left? Still probably more than I was expecting, but still not many in the grand scheme of things.
Bro forgot that Christian universities exist in the deep south. Heck, BYU and TAMU are feeder schools for the CIA.