My sisters and I were the only kids from our family to grow up in our little rural hometown. All my cousins ended up growing in Minneapolis, Ann Arbor, and Kalamazoo and every last one of them is a holier than thou liberal.
My little berg was about 3,000 people. It was fun to watch kids come back from college ‘book smart and don’t know nothin’.
The ones that stayed usually relearned the art of common sense in a year or so once reality returned to them. The city types would occasional visit. Dumber every visit.
Rarely one would come back for a visit and still have the sense they left with. Not often though.