Politico has an article with this title:
This is a Really Big Deal: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP.
No kidding? College towns are hotbeds of Democrat nastiness, and have been for decades. The eastern third of Massachusetts has been, effectively, one big college town for a century or more. That a reporter just discovered this truism reminds me of the Ben Rhodes quote that "reporters know literally nothing."
As professors the DrsC spent much of our adult lives domiciled in left coast college towns and they have always been progressive messes. You learn to regard it with bemused disdain. After two decades, we moved 16 miles out in the country to escape the craziness.
Our former college town was a bright blue island in a rural, red Congressional district. For most of our stay in the region we had a Republican congressman and state reps.
About three years ago, the non-college majority in the town we left behind got fed up with the homeless mess and elected a conservative city council who cleaned it up. As college enrollments are lately dropping, perhaps this sort of "normie revolt" will also happen elsewhere.
