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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On this site, there is a lot of bias against schools outside the northeast. [b]I'm guessing this is coming from people who have no idea what a big and diverse country this is. And they don't travel much.[/b]

But UT-Austin is a great school, and a very difficult admit for students. Same with Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Emory, UVA, UNC-Chapel Hill and several others. And none of these schools are bastions of MAGA. Nor are the surrounding communities. Austin, Nashville, Houston, Atlanta, Charlottesville, Raleigh-Durham and so on are all extremely blue.

If you want to be surrounded by MAGA, go to a rural school in New England, the Midwest, or upstate New York. And anywhere in Pennsylvania. That's where you will find your MAGA people. Not some city in the South. And definitely not Austin. [/quote]

Some of it is coming from people who grew up in those states, left for a reason, and still have family in those states.  My home state has a state legislature generally full of corrupt idiots, for example.  Among other things, they've managed to basically wreck public K-12 education.  
I wouldn't tell a kid not to go to school in my home state, or any of the other states with a lot of MAGA voters...but I can sympathize when someone is shocked by the viewpoints openly expressed by some of these politicians, and make some conclusions about the voters in those states based on that.  I mean, we tell our kids you're known by the company you keep, so it seems somewhat fair to say that a state may be known (at least in part) by the politicians it elects, no?  [/quote]

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