College towns with a conservative populace

Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC.

[quote] College towns with a conservative populace

have the best dick

Athens, GA and Oxford, MS, home to UGA and Ole Miss both fit the build.

Lol.

I wonder why a bunch of conservatives chose a town called "Lynchburg" to establish their university?

I disagree, r3. Athens , GA is very liberal.

Knoxville, TN.

Clemson, SC.

Gainesville, FL.

Colorado Springs, CO, home of the US Air Force Academy which has been a hotbed of conservatism for several decades.

I was in Colorado Springs last summer to go to Pikes Peak. We were getting coffee downtown and suddenly a few dozen of the hottest specimens of man I've ever seen jogged by.

Go Air Force!

How about Denton, TX and Harrisonburg, VA?

Auburn, Alabama.

So we're just naming Southern towns - no surprise there.

Gainesville, FL is not conservative.

Tuscaloosa Alabama

Grove City, PA

[quote] So we're just naming Southern towns - no surprise there.

As a Texan I can't argue with any of these. They are all terrible college towns. I'd add Waco.

What about wherever Wheaton and Hillsdale are? Bumfuck, Illinois or Michigan?

Notre Dame. Indiana.

Orono, Maine

Notre Dame isn't a town, genius R16. And how conservative can South Bend be if they elected an out gay Democrat as mayor?

Gainesville is kinda weird. It’s somewhat half liberal but a lot of very virulent hick types surround the place and some of the student and staff are likely conservative.

Tulsa, OK--home of Oral Roberts U.

Gainesville, no. Tallahassee (home of Florida State, alma mater of the beloved Burt Reynolds), yes.

I lived in Gainesville when it went for Dukakis, and there was a huge Unitarian Church there.

But you're right, R19, it's surrounded by the cast of "Deliverance"

Kearney, Nebraska

[quote] I lived in Gainesville when it went for Dukakis,

That was thirty-three years ago.

Hillsdale MI

[quote] Athens, GA

The original home of bands like R.E.M. and the B-52's? I don't think so. Clarke County, where Athens is located, went 70% for Biden over Trump. It's Athens and Atlanta that helped Georgia finally go blue in 2020.

Stillwater, OK

R24, my dear old homies came through in 2016:

Alachua County (Gainesville/University of Florida, with 52,000 students);

Biden: 62.9% - about 90,000;

Trump: 35.7% - about 51,000.

* Oops I mean 2020. Think my arteries done froze.

29 comments and no one has mentioned Lubbock TX, as ugly as the name implies, and home of Texas Tech, where idiots struggle with 6th grade texts.

Muncie, IN

OK so I'll do 2016 - Alachua (Gainesville):

Hillary 59% - Trump 36.4 - Johnson 3.2 - Stein 1.2.

R18 Notre Dame is a census-designated place[4] north of the city of South Bend in St. Joseph County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It includes the campuses of three colleges: the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College, and Holy Cross College. Notre Dame is split between Clay and Portage Townships. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,342

What is Charlottesville VA like politically.

UVA is there, alma mater of our own Clarice Starling. It's not a charm school you know.

Thank you r33. R34 Charlottesville is very liberal. There is a large subculture of transient homeless there. The community is very supportive of them and offer lots of resources.

Athens, GA isn’t that conservative.

In other words, R35, they are enablers.

San Luis Obispo (home of Cal Poly) is surprisingly conservative, though not compared to some places on this list.

Conservatives in California are more liberal than liberals in the South.

There are several conservative college towns in upstate New York, like Allegany, Oswega, and Jamestown (yes Lucy's place).

Burlington, Vermont

[quote] Grove City, PA

[quote] Kearney, Nebraska

Two of the most dire places on earth.

If Gary, IN gets shit for being a shithole, these two places should be right beside it in the Shithole Directory.

Most colleges in Texas that aren't located in one of the big cities are going to be in conservative towns: College Station, Nacogdoches, Commerce, Canyon, Alpine, Stephenville, Waco, Lubbock, Wichita Falls, Abilene, Odessa, San Angelo, Huntsville, Beaumont. That's the nature of Texas small towns.

Then I guess they were not dumb enough to fall for postmodernism.

Madysyn, Wisconsin

[quote] Burlington, Vermont

Burlington, Vermont isn't conservative! The home of Ben and Jerry's? It went about 76% for Biden in 2020.

Allegheny College is in PA not NY. If you mean Allegany/Olean NY and St Bonaventure, it’s not particularly conservative.

Don’t know if Oswego is particularly conservative. A friend of mine lives there and has never mentioned it.

Jamestown has no college other than a small community college and by no means has anyone ever thought of it as a college town. And it’s a city with a decent size black population and not particularly conservative. Pretty sure it leans Democratic.

Knoxville is more of an actual city, than a "college town"

It also has a female Democrat for mayor although it did vote for Trump and other Republicans (Congress, state legislature)

R47, you might want to look at all those town's voting records, that's what I'm going by when I said "conservative". Allegany/Olean, Oswega, Jamestown all when for Trump between 57% and 63%.

Now, as far as them being considered "college towns" when their colleges may not be that well-known, well, that is a fair point.

What are you babbling about, R44?

Davis, California

OP, why ask this question? Most of us want to avoid conservative, asshead cities.

Tuscaloosa and Auburn are generally liberal compared with the rest of Alabama.

Speaking of Gainesville, FL, here's a song by that name by Linda Ronstadt that many people haven't heard. It's one of my favorite songs she's ever sung.

Gainesburgers

[quote]Davis, California

Hardly. Davis is one of the most liberal places in California.

Opposing Israel is a deplorable, reactionary, and racist position.

Norman, Oklahoma was much more conservative than I thought it would be.

What's Bloomington, Indiana like?

R4, Lynchburg was named after the region's founding family, who included a judge infamous for passing down harsh sentences, including hanging, during colonial times. Thus giving rise to the term "lynch" to mean a cruel execution without due process.

[quote] Norman, Oklahoma was much more conservative than I thought it would be.

You mean compared to the rest of Oklahoma? That should not have surprised you.

I thought Madison, WI was liberal...as well as Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington has a big town/gown split. The nearest towns of any size are Klan enclaves.

Madison, WI is EXTREMELY liberal. Not one Republican or conservative holds any city office and the mayor is an out lesbian. Even the cops are liberal in Madison

Provo, Utah.

Eugene, Oregon

Madison’s liberalness is probably because most of the population are New Yorkers, Western hippies, and Europeans. Native Wisconsans seem a lot more conservative.

How about Decatur and Chaimpaign-Urbana, IL? Don’t know much about them.

Tucson, AZ.

Metro area of +1 million but still feels like a town. Liberal around the University of Arizona but has a solidly conservative populace throughout.

A true purple birthmark of a city.

I know a lot of current UC students and live a few hours away. Cincinnati is just barely liberal in national elections and the few locally elected democrats have all been indicted for fraud, including novelist Curtis Sittenfeld's brother, who I was hoping would go far.

R68 -- You are quite wrong. Tucson voted quite convincingly for Biden in Pima County -- Trump got less than 40 percent of the vote.

R70 Tucson is a huge snowbird destination with many of the snowbirds being conservative. Many of them cast their votes elsewhere. It is definitely very conservative in parts. I know because I live in Tucson.

R18 Notre Dame, Indiana is indeed a town.

r71 thinks that by talking to his really old neighbors he has more facts at his fingertips than, you know, sources with real facts.

Tucson is not conservative overall. See election results

R74 YES - I am aware that Tucson is not OVERALL conservative that is why I called it PURPLE.

I am simply referring to the fact that when voting season rolls around there still may be many votes that aren't exactly indicative of the true population OVERALL because the population is transient. Hope there isn't too much nuance in that statement for you.

To reiterate - TUCSON IS NOT ALL CONSERVATIVE.

College Park, Maryland

Stupid answer

[quote]Madison’s liberalness is probably because most of the population are New Yorkers, Western hippies, and Europeans. Native Wisconsans seem a lot more conservative.

Not even close. Madison and Wisconsin in general have a long history of liberalism. They were voting for socialists in the early 1900s!

Greenville, NC, home to East Carolina University, a large regional state college. It's the most depressing college town I've ever seen, although it's rapidly growing into a city now.

Greenville should not be confused with Greensboro, also in North Carolina, which is much larger and quite liberal and home to 5 colleges.

There's another Greenville in South Carolina which is the most conservative of all.

Greenville is in Pitt County. Biden won Pitt County with 54% of the vote. It’s not a conservative county

I still say Colorado Springs. Even though the wider country doesn’t think ‘Air Force Academy’ when they hear the name, like Annapolis or West Point, the city itself leads with the Academy first, US Olympics second, and Focus on the Family third.

I believe they have moderated their municipal politics in the past few years but at one point they had defunded the municipal services to such an extent that they had to beg citizens to maintain the city parks!

The city of Greenville SC itself is not that conservative anymore - but the suburbs are. This NY Times by precinct link shows Greenville as mostly blue.

[quote] Greenville should not be confused with Greensboro, also in North Carolina.....There's another Greenville in South Carolina.....

Holy smoke, it is confusing.

Hamilton College sits in a tiny village but the surrounding area is standard upstate New York which might as well be Kentucky. (They fly Conferate flags up there. )