[iowamark]

The kind of positive recovery story you won't see in the MSM. People who escaped not just a hurricane, but also escaped even more debilitating negative attitudes.

Waterloo, Iowa is about 14% black, probably the largest percentage in Iowa.

[PeteB570]

My folks live in N/E Iowa. I would read the Waterloo paper when visiting. Nuff said.

Now I life in central NC, big difference.

[Verginius Rufus]

Wartburg College is in Waverley, which would be a 45-50 mile round-trip commute...if she had gone to UNI, she could have taken the city bus to campus.

Waterloo was the birthplace of the five Sullivan brothers, all killed when the USS Juneau was sunk in the Solomon Islands in WWII. (One of the five was among the 125 who survived the sinking initially, but wasn't among the 25 still alive a week later when the Navy finally sent someone to see if there were any survivors.)