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Rittermeister

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13. Because they're excellent schools to teach at?

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #12)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 02:39 PM

Jun 2012

I'm hardly a nativist. I make no distinction between people born here and people who moved here. But the point remains, UNC and Duke were recently rated #11 and #12, respectively. Davidson College was, I believe, #36. If three institutions of higher learning of that caliber are present, ergo, everyone in the state cannot be a braindead redneck. I'm not sure a single deep south school made the top fifty.

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Because they're excellent schools to teach at? Rittermeister Jun 2012 #13

Yes, because of the quality of the universities. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #14

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