Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?

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Anonymous wrote:We love the VA schools because they're more or less in the south, but still get the four seasons. Especially VT.

THIS ^^.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of red states the south. DCUMers are saying their kids will NEVER attend a southern/red state. Hmm…interesting.

MD, DC, and VA are in the South.

DMV area is not South.
One thing though is they send their kids to actually South, UVA VT W&M

Yes it is. Dmv is very different from tri state or New England.

The south starts in York, Pa / Hagerstown md / Frederick md

You think Washington DC is South?
I don't think so.

DP. You must be new here/a transplant. Of course DC is considered the south - not "deep south," but mid-Atlantic south.

This forum has authority to decide that? Lol

[Anonymous]

I think they attract a certain kind of kid, and they offer more merit aid. My trans kid would never go to the Deep South but for more typical students who aren’t politically liberal or engaged, I can see the appeal…especially considering the cost and selectivity of many northeast colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of red states the south. DCUMers are saying their kids will NEVER attend a southern/red state. Hmm…interesting.

MD, DC, and VA are in the South.

DMV area is not South.
One thing though is they send their kids to actually South, UVA VT W&M

Yes it is. Dmv is very different from tri state or New England.

The south starts in York, Pa / Hagerstown md / Frederick md

You think Washington DC is South?
I don't think so.

DP. You must be new here/a transplant. Of course DC is considered the south - not "deep south," but mid-Atlantic south.

This forum has authority to decide that? Lol

Yes.

While this forum is hilarious it also captures the inner thoughts of the dmv area pretty accurately

No one from ny thinks dc ISN’T the south.

[Anonymous]

Olívia dunne is from NJ — she goes to LSU.

She’s the college athlete with the most valuable NIL.

She could’ve gone almost anywhere but picked SEC!

Geaux Tigers!

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Anonymous wrote:I think they attract a certain kind of kid, and they offer more merit aid. My trans kid would never go to the Deep South but for more typical students who aren’t politically liberal or engaged, I can see the appeal…especially considering the cost and selectivity of many northeast colleges.

I agree with Deep South being risky for a trans kid. But for what it’s worth, the most influential college student of the past decade for lgbt visibility went to school in the South and found a great platform there. It was Jacob Tobia if I remember correctly, turning down even Harvard to attend Duke

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of red states the south. DCUMers are saying their kids will NEVER attend a southern/red state. Hmm…interesting.

MD, DC, and VA are in the South.

DMV area is not South.
One thing though is they send their kids to actually South, UVA VT W&M

Yes it is. Dmv is very different from tri state or New England.

The south starts in York, Pa / Hagerstown md / Frederick md

You think Washington DC is South?
I don't think so.

DP. You must be new here/a transplant. Of course DC is considered the south - not "deep south," but mid-Atlantic south.

To the contrary, it is only people who are not from here (eg dumb New Yorkers) who think DC is the South. DC hasn’t been the South since 1970 at the latest.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they attract a certain kind of kid, and they offer more merit aid. My trans kid would never go to the Deep South but for more typical students who aren’t politically liberal or engaged, I can see the appeal…especially considering the cost and selectivity of many northeast colleges.

I agree with Deep South being risky for a trans kid. But for what it’s worth, the most influential college student of the past decade for lgbt visibility went to school in the South and found a great platform there. It was Jacob Tobia if I remember correctly, turning down even Harvard to attend Duke

Duke isn’t really the South if we’re being honest. Full of kids from rich and influential NY and DC families. Only difference between Duke and an Ivy is they have some rich kids from Texas/Florida too

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of red states the south. DCUMers are saying their kids will NEVER attend a southern/red state. Hmm…interesting.

MD, DC, and VA are in the South.

DMV area is not South.
One thing though is they send their kids to actually South, UVA VT W&M

Yes it is. Dmv is very different from tri state or New England.

The south starts in York, Pa / Hagerstown md / Frederick md

You think Washington DC is South?
I don't think so.

DP. You must be new here/a transplant. Of course DC is considered the south - not "deep south," but mid-Atlantic south.

Just nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they attract a certain kind of kid, and they offer more merit aid. My trans kid would never go to the Deep South but for more typical students who aren’t politically liberal or engaged, I can see the appeal…especially considering the cost and selectivity of many northeast colleges.

I agree with Deep South being risky for a trans kid.

Let's quantify that risk. Exactly how many trans kids have been assaulted in the Deep South versus elsewhere in the last decade?

Do we know? Or is this just "hurr durr they're all rednecks down there"?

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of red states the south. DCUMers are saying their kids will NEVER attend a southern/red state. Hmm…interesting.

MD, DC, and VA are in the South.

DMV area is not South.
One thing though is they send their kids to actually South, UVA VT W&M

Yes it is. Dmv is very different from tri state or New England.

The south starts in York, Pa / Hagerstown md / Frederick md

You think Washington DC is South?
I don't think so.

DP. You must be new here/a transplant. Of course DC is considered the south - not "deep south," but mid-Atlantic south.

This forum has authority to decide that? Lol

I'm from "up north" and DC is definitely the South. As the prior pp said, not "deep south" but still south. It's south of Mason Dixon. Weather is more southern than northern. Some cultural things are very "southern" here too (food, wearing of seersucker suits in summer). And it was part of the confederacy. All southern.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of red states the south. DCUMers are saying their kids will NEVER attend a southern/red state. Hmm…interesting.

MD, DC, and VA are in the South.

DMV area is not South.
One thing though is they send their kids to actually South, UVA VT W&M

Yes it is. Dmv is very different from tri state or New England.

The south starts in York, Pa / Hagerstown md / Frederick md

You think Washington DC is South?
I don't think so.

DP. You must be new here/a transplant. Of course DC is considered the south - not "deep south," but mid-Atlantic south.

To the contrary, it is only people who are not from here (eg dumb New Yorkers) who think DC is the South. DC hasn’t been the South since 1970 at the latest.

Im not from NY. I also think DC is southern.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of red states the south. DCUMers are saying their kids will NEVER attend a southern/red state. Hmm…interesting.

MD, DC, and VA are in the South.

DMV area is not South.
One thing though is they send their kids to actually South, UVA VT W&M

Yes it is. Dmv is very different from tri state or New England.

The south starts in York, Pa / Hagerstown md / Frederick md

You think Washington DC is South?
I don't think so.

DP. You must be new here/a transplant. Of course DC is considered the south - not "deep south," but mid-Atlantic south.

This forum has authority to decide that? Lol

I'm from "up north" and DC is definitely the South. As the prior pp said, not "deep south" but still south. It's south of Mason Dixon. Weather is more southern than northern. Some cultural things are very "southern" here too (food, wearing of seersucker suits in summer). And it was part of the confederacy. All southern.

Uh apparently you do not know that the Union controlled DC throughout the civil war. It was never part of the confederacy. Maryland also was south of the Mason-Dixon line but remained in the Union throughout the civil war, not part of the Confederacy. The parts of Virginia right outside DC were Union controlled for almost the entire war.

If you want "southern" food in the DC area you have to go looking for it. But you can find any kind of cuisine in this area so this is a dumb argument. Go to someone's house and they are not going to serve you pan-friend chicken and hush puppies FFS.

You might see a seersucker suit if you try really hard to find it but that's not common at all either.

Stop it with the dumb arguments. The DC area lost its southern-ness a long time ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of red states the south. DCUMers are saying their kids will NEVER attend a southern/red state. Hmm…interesting.

MD, DC, and VA are in the South.

DMV area is not South.
One thing though is they send their kids to actually South, UVA VT W&M

Yes it is. Dmv is very different from tri state or New England.

The south starts in York, Pa / Hagerstown md / Frederick md

You think Washington DC is South?
I don't think so.

DP. You must be new here/a transplant. Of course DC is considered the south - not "deep south," but mid-Atlantic south.

This forum has authority to decide that? Lol

I'm from "up north" and DC is definitely the South. As the prior pp said, not "deep south" but still south. It's south of Mason Dixon. Weather is more southern than northern. Some cultural things are very "southern" here too (food, wearing of seersucker suits in summer). And it was part of the confederacy. All southern.

Uh apparently you do not know that the Union controlled DC throughout the civil war. It was never part of the confederacy. Maryland also was south of the Mason-Dixon line but remained in the Union throughout the civil war, not part of the Confederacy. The parts of Virginia right outside DC were Union controlled for almost the entire war.

If you want "southern" food in the DC area you have to go looking for it. But you can find any kind of cuisine in this area so this is a dumb argument. Go to someone's house and they are not going to serve you pan-friend chicken and hush puppies FFS.

You might see a seersucker suit if you try really hard to find it but that's not common at all either.

Stop it with the dumb arguments. The DC area lost its southern-ness a long time ago.

Not sure where pp got the thing about DC being part of the Confederacy, but Maryland was only kept from seceding (thereby preventing DC from being surrounded by the Confederacy) by Lincoln rescinding the right to habeas corpus and arresting the Maryland legislature. DC may be less culturally Southern these days, but that is true of any major city in the South. If you actually get to know anyone who is from a family that has actually been native to DC for more than one generation, you’d believe this. But most DCUM people only know transplants.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of red states the south. DCUMers are saying their kids will NEVER attend a southern/red state. Hmm…interesting.

MD, DC, and VA are in the South.

This. I went to elementary school in Prince Georges County. We lived in Bowie. In clearly remember in first and second grades at Elementary School in Bowie singing "Dixie." I would classify VA as deep south. I've worked throughout Virginia and eaten plenty of biscuits and gravy throughout the state.