Is the future of higher ed in the South?
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Anonymous
Why did you throw in the one night stand? Do women have to meet your moral standards before they are alowed access to health care? What century are we living in? |
Anonymous
Soon most T20 colleges will be in the south. |
Anonymous
I take your point, but also if you want the politics to change, having liberals move there is a good start. Some states, Mississippi, for example, are probably so deep red it won’t happen, but Tennessee, for example, has both Nashville and Memphis and two other large university towns in Knoxville (u of Tennessee) and Murfreesboro (Middle TN State, which is the second largest college in the state with probably 30,000 students). Those places are fairly progressive and are barely outnumbered by the more rural places in the rest of the state. The state as a whole is not nearly as red as its legislative assembly would suggest. Sure, the Smokeys might be deep red, but mountains and moonshine distilleries don’t vote. |
Anonymous
| I do think that many kids are headed to schools in the south. A year ago, I would have said that one of the reasons is due to cost (since southern schools tend to give good merit). However, I am seeing less and less merit being given this past year (most likely due to popularity of these schools). For example, many people (on Facebook groups) have complained that their kids didn't receive merit at places like South Carolina and Clemson, whereas in prior years they would have received some with the same stats. While, merit seems to be getting less and less, these southern schools still seem to cost a lot less than the schools in the north. Also, despite costing less, they still give a great education and a fun experience for the students (without all of these woke protests). |
Anonymous
Huh? Balance at CATHOLIC schools? You have lost your mind. Unless of course you mean balance between conservative extremism and far right conservatives. |
Anonymous
Not sure if you actually grew up in the south or not but I don't know if you'd describe Alabama or Georgia as "gorgeous". Morbid obesity is a huge problem across the South. Sure, there are some good looking people but you could go to CA or CO for more physically fit people. |
Anonymous
I meant the Universities dipsh*t. What, I have to literally spell that out for you? |
Anonymous
The vast majority-maybe- but I wouldn’t want my kid to flirt with death because if an ectopic pregnancy in the south. It’s happening to someone’s daughter. |
Anonymous
Right now it's 3, so that'll take some movement. |
Anonymous
| Whatever. I'm from a warm state and my kids love the sun, but their colleges are in Minnesota and Massachusetts, and not coincidentally. Neither of them considered a southern state for a moment. And that's the case for 90% of their high-achieving friends in MCPS public schools, too. None of them are going south. |
Anonymous
I grew up in the sun surrounded by the future SEC sorority girls and headed north with no regrets. People want different things out of college, and there are great schools in the South, y'all's stereotypes about northern schools are just as stupid as the ones people have about southern schools. |
Anonymous
Universities filter out the regular population. I went to grad school at one of these schools…the amount of beautiful women there is unreal. You just kind of have to see it. |
Anonymous
Okay, I'll grant you that the Northeast is happy hunting grounds for crunchy butch lesbians. Touche. Fair enough. |
Anonymous
The shift is very real for fun, attractive, social, smart kids. |
Anonymous
It’s not that everyone is so conservative across the south. There are a lot of majority black cities in the south (Memphis, Birmingham, Jackson, MS, Montgomery, Shreveport, New Orleans, Baton Rouge…all have a majority black population and politics that reflect that demographic) and those places solidly vote democratic. |