Another thing I’ll add, regarding northerners at UA. There are a lot of them. IIRC, over 60% of the incoming freshmen this past year were from OOS. A number of those are from surrounding states and Texas, but there are significant numbers from Illinois, the northeast and California. I don’t think you’ll find culture shock. I had culture shock when I went from Philadelphia to UVa for school back in the day; my daughter had none when she went from the Chicago area to Bama. I don’t know if it’s different for students of color. My daughter’s roommate was AA, and was perfectly acclimated, but she was a southerner from Tennessee.