Flyover country schools

[Anonymous]

Pennsylvanian(s) of DCUM are quaking in their boots apparently! The mere thought that they might not be coastal elites is too much to bear, just too much!

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Anonymous wrote:Well OP- anyone not from a coastal state is from flyover country. There are lots of smart kids everywhere. Most of the smartest ones do manage to escape. I am from flyover (Ohio)+ was proud to read in the NYT that the majority of CEOs come from 4 states - (CA, NY, OH, and PA). So that equals two coastal and 2 flyovers. Even Steven.

Three of those are coastal states. I'll let you look on a map and see if you can figure out which ones.

DP. Some parts of PA are “culturally” coastal, but it does not, in fact, touch the Atlantic coast.

Since you want to be technical about it, The Delaware River estuary reaches up into Pennsylvania. An estuary is an arm of the sea, so Pennsylvania meets the technical definition of being a state which does in fact touch the Atlantic Coast.

Lmao this is such a lame attempt.

Lame attempt? Then, by your logic, Connecticut is not a coastal state since it’s not on the Atlantic Coast but only on an arm of the ocean. For that matter, Rhode Island, “the Ocean State”, isn’t either because it’s on Block Island Sound and not on the ocean. And Maryland qualifies only by a tiny 31 mile strip of Atlantic coast that isn’t even connected by land to the rest of the state.

Everyone knows that Pennsylvania is one of the Middle Atlantic states. It was the PP who was lame in contending that it wasn’t an East Coast state. I suppose that DC isn’t an East Coast city either.

... What on earth? Pennsylvania literally does not touch the ocean.

[Anonymous]

"What is it like to attend a school in a part of the country with a very small population if you're from a place like the DMV or another major metro area? I'm thinking of states like Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska, or the Dakotas. I have friends who went to grad school in those sorts of places, but not college."

It would be such a better world if people would bother to read and not get defensive and then project their bizarre issues onto simple questions.

Chicago?!?! It says right there in the first sentence of the post "small population." How do you get confused and think we're discussing Chicago?

I'm from a place that feels pretty much like the show Friday Night Lights. Let's get real and acknowledge that most of the young people in those places are looking for a way to get to the "big city" and let's stop pretending that most people think that's where they want to end up if they're ambitious. The question is what happens to people who choose to go to school in Small Town America? Are people used to lots of racial and LGBTQ+ diversity comfortable there, especially if they themselves fit into one of these groups? Do people wonder why you'd choose to go there? (My sister went to a college where she was constantly asked WTH she choose to move clear across the country just to go to a cow town school.) Under what conditions does somebody choose to stay nearby, especially given the dearth of professional jobs opportunities?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from Chicago. The term flyover state is a perfect mix of arrogance and ignorance.

That describes a lot of people in DC and NYC pretty well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only schools in "flyover country" that are really worth it are UChicago and Northwestern.

Chicago is taking serious knocks in recent weeks. Three companies in the Fortune 500 have left the region. Then today, Ken Griffin, the richest guy in Illinois is moving his hedge fund Citadel to Miami. Griffin is also the largest donor in U of Chicago history.

Let's be frank, flyover country has done and is doing nothing but declining. And that will continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pennsylvanian(s) of DCUM are quaking in their boots apparently! The mere thought that they might not be coastal elites is too much to bear, just too much!

Philly is a dump but 1) on the Acela line 2) less than two hours drive from NYC and DC.

Philly is east coast.

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Anonymous wrote:Pennsylvanian(s) of DCUM are quaking in their boots apparently! The mere thought that they might not be coastal elites is too much to bear, just too much!

Philly is a dump but 1) on the Acela line 2) less than two hours drive from NYC and DC.

Philly is east coast.

Philly is culturally east coast, but PA is not a coastal state, which is what started this whole bizarro argument to begin with.

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Anonymous wrote:Well OP- anyone not from a coastal state is from flyover country. There are lots of smart kids everywhere. Most of the smartest ones do manage to escape. I am from flyover (Ohio)+ was proud to read in the NYT that the majority of CEOs come from 4 states - (CA, NY, OH, and PA). So that equals two coastal and 2 flyovers. Even Steven.

Three of those are coastal states. I'll let you look on a map and see if you can figure out which ones.

You are mistaken to try to "correct" me. PA is not on the coast. Learn geography.