Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School Graduates

Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by xor1 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @06:02PM (#16442389)

California on its own has a huge amount of disparity. I'm only familiar with the SF/Bay/LA/OC/SD bubbles, since that's where I've spent (and continue to spend) my entire life. I can't even name more than a few counties, and I can barely name any cities outside of those counties. The rest of California that isn't bordering any of these regions may as well be another country to me.

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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by Roboprog on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:42PM (#16443098)

If you want to see “Appalachia West”, drive north on I-5 until you get to Bakersfield, then take CA-99 from Bakersfield to Sacramento. Well, from the LA area, anyway. Or from SF go east on I-80 to Sac, then south on CA-99.

It’s a different world than the coastal cities. (Much like you said, but that’s the route, anyway)

Sacramento itself is a kind of borderland, despite being the capitol.

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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by daodedickinson on Thursday February 22, 2018 @06:27PM (#16442574)

Victor Davis Hanson of Stanford's Hoover Institute has been the leading writer on this topic for years; this is his latest: https://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/california-21st-centur...

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