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> attending a conservative university in a culturally regressive state

I didn't downvote you, but I feel like I could have without any guilt. Have you been to Austin? Or any urban center in Texas? They are probably more conservative than Berkeley, but they're definitely blue areas. Especially Austin. I mean, Houston's mayor is a lesbian! See if you can pick out Dallas, Austin, and Houston on this map:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/2004_US_e...

And substance aside, terms like "culturally regressive" are unnecessary and inflammatory. And your post has an overall dismissive attitude of someone who is just expressing himself. He makes it extremely clear that it's just his opinion.

So maybe there is a downvote brigade, but I'm not in it. And they're redundant if you ask me.

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I imagine Texas is a lot like Oregon. Super Blue in the cities, and super Red when you drive out. But really it's hard to characterize an entire state, especially the 2nd most populated one in the U.S.

I don't know. Every Texan I've ever known likes to name drop Austin to defend their state to the point where it's like saying they've got a black friend so they can't be racists. Or, they let a gay guy hug them so they're not homophobic.

At some point it starts to make you cross-eyed :P

I'm sorry, I'm know I'm poking this subject with a stick. I hope everyone understands the satire and frustration of my statement.

No. Honestly I haven't been to Austin and I have heard good things about it but I did spend a few years living in the DFW Metroplex area (Arlington and then later in Plano). I have on the other hand have had bad personal experiences with UT graduates being rather full of themselves clueless about the real world. As well as white middle-class 19 year olds thinking they're social media experts because they posted a blog post.

Texas in general has always left a bad taste in my mind and their political and religious exports don't do much to change my opinion.

I always love how Austin get's thrown out as some amazing counter to excuse the rest of the state.

> UT graduates being rather full of themselves clueless about the real world

Sounds like a large portion of graduates from any university.

>As well as white middle-class 19 year olds thinking they're social media experts because they posted a blog post.

From the article: >That being said, I'm not an expert at this by a long shot and I'm sure there will be data that disproves some of the points I make, but this is just what I've noticed.

He clearly states otherwise.

All that proves is that his Journalism instructor told him to be sure to include boilerplate CYA to deflect criticism of his article. If he really felt this way he wouldn't be so declarative of his opinions.

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