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Del Tachi
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« on: July 06, 2011, 02:14:04 PM »

I heard it was Oxford, Mississippi...anybody have any data to back that up?
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« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2011, 02:21:10 PM »

college station, tx
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« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2011, 02:21:35 PM »

Define "College town".
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« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2011, 03:18:14 PM »

colorado springs.  obviously.
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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2011, 03:43:10 PM »


Yeah, because I'm not sure the Air Force Academy's home qualifies as a college town as mitty suggests.
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« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2011, 04:10:13 PM »


Yeah, because I'm not sure the Air Force Academy's home qualifies as a college town as mitty suggests.

why do you hate our military?
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« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2011, 04:24:02 PM »

Provo by a mile.
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« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2011, 09:31:30 PM »

I'm taking some liberty with the definition of "Republican college town" to mean most heavily Republican college campus precinct(s) compared to the surrounding area.

A good candidate for this would be Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH where the college precinct voted 82.5% for McCain (496-103) when the next precinct over voted 78% for Obama. Meanwhile, Obama won the city with 49.7% of the vote (although all the other Republican areas are on the opposite side of town). The Democrats are mainly of the poor coal-mining WV type rather than liberals. There's probably a better answer nationwide, but this is the best example I could find in Ohio.

For a big state school (using the normal definition of Republican college town) at least in Ohio I'd guess Oxford (Miami of Ohio) or maybe even Kent. Both are ~60% Obama ish areas rather than the usual college town 80-90%.

Nationwide is beyond my knowledge.
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« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2011, 09:43:24 PM »

By "college town" I mean towns with four-year institutes of higher learning with at least 10,000 undergraduates...just to weed out some of the smaller schools...
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« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2011, 10:18:11 PM »

Monroe, LA (which has a campus of the University of Louisiana) is pretty conservative. McCain won the parish 62-37.
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« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2011, 11:25:26 PM »

Virginia Beach?
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« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2011, 08:23:16 AM »


Virginia Beach is a city of 450,000 people. It is not a college town.
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« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2011, 08:29:33 AM »

Lynchburg, Virginia
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« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2011, 01:41:27 PM »

Someone ought to define "college town" before any more is said.
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« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2011, 12:52:56 AM »

Someone ought to define "college town" before any more is said.

I think it would be a town primarily identified with its school. By that token, Berkeley would be a college town but Palo Alto would not.


This was what sprang to mind for me, also.
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« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2011, 02:40:38 AM »

BYU
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« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2011, 02:56:17 AM »

Rexburg, ID

Maybe Provo, UT...
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