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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a diverse mix of traditional Southerners, Texans, and groups from NYC, California, Denver, and a lot from Northern Virginia.  More diverse than you might think, incl around 10% intl (mostly China but smattering elsewhere).  Single sanction honor code and basically same for discipline means booze and drugs are very under the radar.

Extremely loyal alumni - around 70% give annually - so they have funds to invest in almost everything.

Colleges tend Southern (UVA, UNC, Davidson, etc.) but probably 30% attend selective schools in NE or otherwise outside the south.[/quote]

I'm an alum with pretty mixed feelings about the place. For starters, it is far from rednecky but it is very Good Ol' Boy with extreme affluence. Which means white boys who love SEC football, wearing ball caps and using smokeless tobacco. But their vehicles are Tahoes and Grand Cherokees, not pickup trucks, their hunting is at exclusive game preserves or luxurious duck blinds, not tree stands in the local forest, and their Alabama fandom is demonstrated by watching the national championship game from club level suites, not in a sports bar.

It is unapologetically conservative, as embodied by the one strike and you're out policy on the Honor Code and alcohol/drugs. The resources there are virtually unlimited - it is one of the richest schools in the country on an endowment per student basis, which is north of $500,000 per student and climbing toward one million. My hope for Woodberry is that it will use those resources to become more like Davidson and less like Hamden-Sydney - a bastion of learning in the south, rather than a manifestation of traditional southern culture. But I haven't really seen much movement in that direction.

Also, the idea that one-third of the student body goes to school outside the south is way off base. Here's the 2016 matriculation list: https://bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/51/misc/misc_134834.pdf
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And what, exactly, is wrong with the manifestation of Southern culture. [/quote]

For me, as a WFS student in the 80s, it was primarily the reflexive casual racism, unquestioned homophobia, and resistance to engaging with new ideas.

But also all the cups full of dip spit.[/quote]

And of course these traits are never, ever, ever found in persons hailing from any region of the country other than the South, thus confirming your point that this is the gist of "Southern culture." Is that what you mean?[/quote]

Yes[/quote]

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