A look at where the leaders of the two parties went to college. The discovery is a major difference between the two parties.

Forbes reports.

The Democrats: The Party of the Elite College Education

Democrats are supposedly the party of the poor and oppressed, mightily concerned about the distribution of income and the concentration of wealth – right? And Republicans are the party of business and the affluent, more concerned about expanding income, including that of the rich and wealthy, right? If these characterizations are correct, you would expect the political leaders for the Democrats to come from humble educational backgrounds befitting their allegedly populists beliefs. You would expect Republican leaders to be graduates of our nation’s academically gated communities, the highly selective rich private schools where even today most students come from affluent backgrounds.

In reality, this is all wrong – badly so. Republican political leaders come from far more humble educational backgrounds than their Democratic counterparts. And, for all their talk about income equality, the Democratic leadership has historically protected and expanded educational inequality through its actions, widening the gap between the rich and poor colleges, those considered distinguished and those considered ordinary.

First, a little empirical evidence. I choose 15 prominent Democrats on the American political scene, and compared their backgrounds to 15 Republican counterparts. For the Democrats, in addition to President Obama and Vice President Biden, I picked two former national officeholders (Bill Clinton and Al Gore), two possible 2016 presidential nominees (Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren), several congressional leaders (Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, and Steny Hoyer), and several prominent Obama administration leaders: Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Eric Holder, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, and powerful White House aide Valerie Jarrett.