{"id":355,"date":"2007-03-09T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T19:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/blue-towns-in-red-states\/"},"modified":"2014-05-02T11:57:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T15:57:42","slug":"blue-towns-in-red-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/blue-towns-in-red-states\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blue Towns in Red States&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9\u00a0(a suspiciously French-sounding name) is a professor of English at rural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Penn State<\/a> and a New York transplant. In an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/weekly\/v53\/i27\/27b01001.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Blue Towns in Red States<\/em><\/a>, he writes convincingly of how the presence of &#8220;liberal&#8221; Universities in mainly rural areas brings a stable work climate to regions that might otherwise experience financial volatility. He also marvels amusingly at the cultural disparity when &#8220;professors of cultural studies pass pucks to weekend hunters, and theorists of the modernist avant-garde offend their devout Christian neighbors by mentioning Harry Potter.&#8221; Although Charlottesville is not mentioned specifically in the article, the phenomenon he describes sounds an awful lot like our little burg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9\u00a0(a suspiciously French-sounding name) is a professor of English at rural Penn State and a New York transplant. In an article titled Blue Towns in Red States, he writes convincingly of how the presence of &#8220;liberal&#8221; Universities in mainly rural areas brings a stable work climate to regions that might otherwise experience financial volatility. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-5J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}