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[quote=Anonymous]As someone previously said, it's because most state flagships are land grant schools. In the 1860s, the federal government gave federal land to the states to use to create universities. Some of the land was sold to raise money. Some of the land was used to house the universities. Federal land in most places tends to rural, not urban. So they're well away from most major cities in most places. (The states could have bought different land to build their flagships on, of course. That's an extra expense, though, so most didn't.)[/quote]
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