Looking For a Nice Safe Community with a Fairly Conservative College

12.07.02 | mlmr

[Clara Lou]

May I recommend the Heart of Texas area? Waco is conservative, and Baylor University is there, along with a community college. An hour south is Texas A&M University-- a conservative state school. There is also a community college. In the area surrounding A&M, Republicans carried the day in the election in November. Even the dog-catecher is Republican. There are several public and private schools to choose from. The unemployment rate is consistently the lowest or 2nd lowest in the state.

[mlmr]

Thank you

[mlmr]

I live in MAINE, Ace...I KNOW snow!!!

[thucydides]

Yes, it is in a small town in western Michigan.

[Spyder]

The towns around Seventh-Day Adventist colleges are frequently very conservative. The have the advantage of integrating well with the Adventist high schools for kids wanting to take advanced work. The lab schools tend to be quite flexible. I took both college courses in high school plus was able to accelerate my high school courses to finish early, and that's been 30 years ago.

Some of the ones I can name off the top of my head are Southern University in Collegedale, TN (probably the most conservative of the bunch); Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI; Walla Walla College in Walla Walla, WA.

You don't have to be Adventist to attend. We had Catholics and Baptists, though they were admittedly in the minority. Price range is probably about average for a private religious school.

Someone mentioned Waco. We lived in Killeen, TX (same congressional district) for two years when husband was at Ft. Hood. FWIW, they consistently elect RAT congress critters. The conservatives that are in the area other than the military conservatives, however, are pretty close to being off the chart to the right.

[intolerancewillNOTbetolerated]

Grove City is not so "quaint" that bi-racial would be a big deal.

If you can get out here, I'll arrange for a guided tour for you by some current students & faculty who can give you a good feel for the community, the local schools and the college.

[mlmr]

Thank you. I have been turning this over in my head for a long time. Circumstances have forced me let go of the children more and I want then to swim in a safe pond while they are young.

[ODDITHER]

University of Northern Colorado's President is a former Republican Senator who was very conservative as a Senator(Hank Brown). When he was appointed the professors led demonstrations against him. He has quietly been changing things a little at a time. The communities around it have very low crime rates.

[Rudder]

In New Concord, Ohio there is an excellent, small, Christian college: Muskingum College. The community is small and quaint and only 1 hour away from Columbus to the west and Pittsburg, Pa. to the east. I was a professor there about 10 years ago and it consistently receives very good ratings for academic standards.

[mhking]

Fairly Conservative College???

In the same sentence? Uh....right.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Please let me invite you to take a look at my community: Black Mountain/Montreat NC. My wife teaches at Montreat College, it is a small Christian liberal arts college that is definitely conservative/evangelical in orientation and takes seriously the integration of faith and learning. We are a safe, small-town community in the mountains of western North Carolina, yet are located only a convenient 20 minutes away from Asheville, with direct access via I-40. Our public schools are OK, but the Asheville Christian Academy is also building a new campus near here and will be moving out here from Asheville for the next school year. It is truly a great place to live, with a relatively mild climate but with four distinct seasons. For more info, check my website: www.stefanstackhouse.com

[FourPeas]

I agree Hillsdale.

[Malichi]

University of Mississippi in lovely Oxford, MS.
Enough said.

[mlmr]

Fairly Conservative College???

There seems to be a list of them here!! I am blessed by a cloud of Freepers here today!!

[AppyPappy]

Blacksburg, Va, home of Virginia Tech.

[Walkingfeather]

I was there 15 years ago and racial jokes /discrimination was pretty rare and confronted even then ... So I imagine it is really not tolerated now... But who knows who you will run into in the world. Take a road trip. Call the education dept at ACU ( abilene Christian University) and ask who has the best school etc. most of the schools are staffed by teachers that went to ACU and are very well educated. There is also private christian schools there.

[afraid]

Texas is a good place. Pick a nice small town to live in, and you should not have any troubles. Stay closer to the middle to western part of the state. If money is not an issue, the west Texas canyons are very pretty and the towns there are quiet.

[Walkin Man]

http://www.hillsdale.edu/

http://www.multimag.com/city/mi/alma/

Heres some links for Hillsdale and Alma.

[mlmr]

Thank you and bless you Walkingfeather!

[DouglasKC]

I have three younger children who I need to place in good public or Christian schools.

Ottawa county in Michigan is the place you want to go. Very conservative, our representative to the house routinely get's 70% plus of the vote. Great public schools (for being public schools) many choices of religious schools. A small town near where i live, Spring Lake, has 1 bar and at least a dozen churches. Virtually a church on every block. In Ottawa county there is Grand Valley State University with extension campuses in many towns. In nearby Kent County (Grand Rapids Michigan) there are a number of colleges and universities. Calvin College and Cornerstone University I believe both offer seminary courses.

Economy is always good so jobs are usually plentiful. Automotive manufactuing and the office furniture industry are the biggies in the local area. Ottawa county though is primarily agricultural...blueberries, evergreens, etc.

But the topper for Ottawa county is that it's on the shores of Lake Michigan. Great beaches and many quaint towns. I live near Grand Haven, Michigan which can be described as a lovely little tourist town. Lots of water sports, boating, fishing.

The drawbacks: Living close to the lake we sometimes get LOTS of lake effect snow. This is great if you don't mind snow. You'll never get stuck though. Everyone and their brother has a plow on the front of the pickup truck and the road crews have road clearing down to a science for the most part.