Remember that during the Vietnam War, support for the US government's position was positively correlated with years of formal education.
The more schooling you had, the more you supported the Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon war. Universities were doing their job - and they still are, even more.
--CGE
On 4/17/10 9:04 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Apr 17, 2010, at 10:01 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> Doug, you've been here (and I've been here for years): it's a fucking
>> cornfield.
>
> The University of Illinois is huge. It has no civilizing effect on its
> hometown? I remember Churbana as surrounded by cornfields, but the town
> itself as a typical university town. As I recall Charlottesville, it was
> surrounded by right-wing rednecks but the town itself would never elect
> some idiot xenophobe as mayor. Maybe 30 years have distorted my memory.
> Is it really that bad?
>
> Doug
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