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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in metro DC but I grew up and went to school in the south; wondering how a nice, open minded, friendly liberal northern kids fit in socially at Clemson? My DC wants a college with traditional “college life”. I have heard it can be a challenge socially sometimes for kids from the north to attend southern schools like Clemson. [/quote]

I’m a northerner (more north than DC) that attended U of SC and loved it. Anyone can have fun and enjoy it. Don’t box your child into being a “liberal northern kid.” S/he can grow into whatever s/he wants to be whether it’s liberal or more conservative. [/quote]

Thank you! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to box my child in, in any way. It’s been 30+years since I was in college in the south and I am interested what it would be like for her, coming there with a different upbringing that I had. My recollection  of college was that there was a lot of uniformity. Very glad to hear your experience was very different, and that there was a mix of different opinions and beliefs. [/quote]

PP again. I’m back up north again for 12 years in my home state, and some of my southern friends are still among my best friends. I know people around here have poor opinions of many southerners it I like how they’ve enriched my life. There are old money southerners, hick southerners, and southerners you’d never guess were southerners based on the typical stereotypes. Sure they don’t fit into the DMV’s definition of “diversity” but they have enhanced my life and shown me different cultural things I love and broadened my horizon in their way. As a northerner I was interesting to them too. I wouldn’t have traded my experience for the world. [/quote]

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