Town vs. gown, city vs. country schisms

Bookworm has written an excellent post today on the town vs. gown schisms we see in places like Oberlin, Ohio and the cities vs. country schisms we see in other places across America.

...If the NPV movement comes to your state, fight it tooth and nail. While it pretends to be about increasing democracy through the popular vote, it’s really about disenfranchising all non-urban America, just as the college towns are now actively seeking to disenfranchise and destroy the communities in which they live. The jurors in Oberlin pushed back and it’s up to the rest of us to do the same.

Read more here.