Red-state politics in and out of the college classroom
- Written by Natasha Zaretsky, Associate Professor of History, Southern Illinois University
For two decades, I have taught U.S. women’s and gender history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, a blue town in a blue state, marooned in an ocean of red.
Bordered by Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta and the Ozarks, Southern Illinois is surrounded by the country’s poorest rural regions.
Some of my students arrive from...
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