Bloomington is not Indiana.
Am shipping my youngest one off to IU in less than two weeks. My late younger brother was actually born in Bloomington while dad (who passed July 2 this year) was in graduate school there. Made his first, true, lifelong Black friend who lived upstairs in "Hoosier Courts" (married housing) right above us. It is a vastly more Progressive place than the rest of the cornfield.
[Update]: It's painful to read what I wrote only a year ago. My daughter's first year experience at IU confirms, without any ambiguity at all, that Bloomington is as festering a shithole as the rest of this state. I stand very much corrected. The racism down there is as palpable as it is anywhere and worse - much, much worse. It makes sense when you think about it - Southern Indiana is really Northern Kentucky and IU is still populated largely with Indiana natives. So it stands to reason that it is, like the rest of Indiana, a great place to be from.
