This might surprise you, but what you wrote here resonates with me quite well. I go to Emerson College in Boston, which, if you're unfamiliar with the school, is probably Boston's equivalent to NYU in the media realm (I'm working towards an M.A. in Media Arts, and I'm writing / directing / producing a film that I hope to get shot in Hi-Definition Video in the summer). Like your description of NYU, Emerson College is probably 99.9% liberal too.
I don't live in Boston, technically speaking, but near Cambridge, which is most famous for being the home of Harvard University. If Massachusetts isn't considered liberal enough (over 3/4 of the state's legislature is Democratic, thus rendering the governor here a virtual figurehead whose vetos are regularly overridden), Cambridge is also unofficially called "The People's Republic of Cambridge." If I go into Harvard Square, I am bombarded with communists, Lyndon LaRouche supporters, and Howard Dean buttons.
And what have I found? I personally don't like it. I've realized that, on paper, I am far more liberal than I am in person. With that, it is my view that if the Republican Party were more socially liberal and more fiscally conservative, I would probably feel more at home there. But, with that, maybe saying that is the equivalent of wishing that the sky was green. But I digress.
If you consider yourself part of that 0.1% that isn't "liberal," then use it creatively. Assuming that you're in production, I'm sure you've seen that 99.9% of films can pretty much be stereotyped. There are the big budget films, yes, but then there is the "independent film." The fact that I can spot them a mile away is about as laughable as the "big budget" stereotype; sometimes, they try so hard to be painfully cool, and maybe that's what you get when everyone thinks alike. Rather than lamenting that everyone thinks differently from you, use the fact that you think differently from everyone to your advantage.
Anyway, I hope this is coherent. I've started to ramble on. I just thought I'd mention that, oddly enough, I've had some similar experiences regarding this, even if we don't see eye-to-eye on everything.
Melon