Is the future of higher ed in the South?

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Anonymous wrote:You know they are B-/B kids who don’t want to go to GMU or Towson. It’s good for them to venture out.

I agree. And the Free Press? Not exactly the best source. Now give me a large percentage of kids who actually get into top 20 schools and turn them down for Elon and then I can comment on the “trend”.

Soon most T20 colleges will be in the south.

Right now it's 3, so that'll take some movement.

The shift is very real for fun, attractive, social, smart kids.

Do the police know how much time you spend thinking about how attractive high schoolers are?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Quality of life at places like Auburn, Alabama, and George is insane. Gorgeous weather, gorgeous people.

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.

I meant the Universities dipsh*t. What, I have to literally spell that out for you?

Um, moron, I did go to school in the south. I know precisely what I'm talking about. And no, the entire student populations are not "gorgeous". You may be confusing a singular sorority with the entire school population.

My original comment stands. I think the student population at Boulder is likely in better shape than Bama or UGA

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Anonymous wrote:The reasons to go to college in the north are barely detectable. Imagine going to Tufts or SUNY-Buffalo for four years and then someone tells you, "Oh, you didn't know? You could have done the same thing, but in the sun surrounded by beautiful people."

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.

Okay, I'll grant you that the Northeast is happy hunting grounds for crunchy butch lesbians. Touche. Fair enough.

Well said!

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Anonymous wrote:You know they are B-/B kids who don’t want to go to GMU or Towson. It’s good for them to venture out.

I agree. And the Free Press? Not exactly the best source. Now give me a large percentage of kids who actually get into top 20 schools and turn them down for Elon and then I can comment on the “trend”.

Soon most T20 colleges will be in the south.

Right now it's 3, so that'll take some movement.

The shift is very real for fun, attractive, social, smart kids.

Do the police know how much time you spend thinking about how attractive high schoolers are?

Turns out that is not a crime.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not a fan of the state of reproductive healthcare in the South, and I can see it having real-life impacts on girls and boys attending colleges there.

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.

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.

+Savannah, Mobile, Augusta & Macon in GA. Soon the city of Atlanta will be majority black too w population shift there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Quality of life at places like Auburn, Alabama, and George is insane. Gorgeous weather, gorgeous people.

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.

I meant the Universities dipsh*t. What, I have to literally spell that out for you?

Um, moron, I did go to school in the south. I know precisely what I'm talking about. And no, the entire student populations are not "gorgeous". You may be confusing a singular sorority with the entire school population.

My original comment stands. I think the student population at Boulder is likely in better shape than Bama or UGA

CA is where the beautiful ppl are!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know they are B-/B kids who don’t want to go to GMU or Towson. It’s good for them to venture out.

I agree. And the Free Press? Not exactly the best source. Now give me a large percentage of kids who actually get into top 20 schools and turn them down for Elon and then I can comment on the “trend”.

Soon most T20 colleges will be in the south.

Yes at this rate the northern schools will be virtual online schools because the angry student tantrum will be ongoing. Kids who actually care about their education will move on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a fan of the state of reproductive healthcare in the South, and I can see it having real-life impacts on girls and boys attending colleges there.

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.

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.

+Savannah, Mobile, Augusta & Macon in GA. Soon the city of Atlanta will be majority black too w population shift there.

So I’d expect the south to become more democratic voters in the future too. The old guard, the good old boys type are thankfully thinning out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quality of life at places like Auburn, Alabama, and George is insane. Gorgeous weather, gorgeous people.

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.

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.

I went to both undergrad and grad school in the south and grew up there. My original comment still stands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reasons to go to college in the north are barely detectable. Imagine going to Tufts or SUNY-Buffalo for four years and then someone tells you, "Oh, you didn't know? You could have done the same thing, but in the sun surrounded by beautiful people."

Haha, my friends in HS went to SUNY Albany, and when they came to visit me at UF said that exact thing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a fan of the state of reproductive healthcare in the South, and I can see it having real-life impacts on girls and boys attending colleges there.

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.

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.

Memphis has voted solidly democratic for a long time. It’s east TN and the more rural areas that are the red that’s destroying the state political system in TN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quality of life at places like Auburn, Alabama, and George is insane. Gorgeous weather, gorgeous people.

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.

I meant the Universities dipsh*t. What, I have to literally spell that out for you?

Um, moron, I did go to school in the south. I know precisely what I'm talking about. And no, the entire student populations are not "gorgeous". You may be confusing a singular sorority with the entire school population.

My original comment stands. I think the student population at Boulder is likely in better shape than Bama or UGA

You think Boulder potheads are in good shape?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a fan of the state of reproductive healthcare in the South, and I can see it having real-life impacts on girls and boys attending colleges there.

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.

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.

+Savannah, Mobile, Augusta & Macon in GA. Soon the city of Atlanta will be majority black too w population shift there.

So I’d expect the south to become more democratic voters in the future too. The old guard, the good old boys type are thankfully thinning out.

You might get surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quality of life at places like Auburn, Alabama, and George is insane. Gorgeous weather, gorgeous people.

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.

I meant the Universities dipsh*t. What, I have to literally spell that out for you?

Um, moron, I did go to school in the south. I know precisely what I'm talking about. And no, the entire student populations are not "gorgeous". You may be confusing a singular sorority with the entire school population.

My original comment stands. I think the student population at Boulder is likely in better shape than Bama or UGA

I mean, if you're cruising gay bars for trim guys in Patagonia vests, sure. You got me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quality of life at places like Auburn, Alabama, and George is insane. Gorgeous weather, gorgeous people.

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.

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.

I went to both undergrad and grad school in the south and grew up there. My original comment still stands.

Oh c’mon! Are they better looking than those 5’3” 200 pounders screeching into bullhorns in NYC?