These Harvard kids got the lesson of their life in the Heartland
" On a blustery afternoon in April, I filed into a van along with 10
students from Harvard. We had just spent the last two days in Chicopee,
Mass., where we had chatted with the police chief and his force, the
mayor and his staff, small-business owners, waitresses and firemen about
their struggles living in small-town America.
The undergrads were buzzing with their impressions. Chicopee is about 90
miles west of their prestigious university in Cambridge, but when it
comes to shared experience, it might as well have been 1,000 light years
away.
As they settled in, I looked at them.
“So,” I said, “who do you think most of the people you just got to know voted for president?”
None of the students had an answer. It hadn’t come up in their
conversations and they didn’t know I had privately asked each person who
they’d voted for.
So, I let a minute pass and told them.
“Nearly every one of them voted for Trump.”
My students looked stunned, at first. But then a recognition crossed their faces."
[New York Post]
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