My daughter was the same with the streets through campus. And yet is at a city college so a campus but less traditional. And many streets as her school is downtown. Go figure.
But in general, streets through the campus were a bother to her.
Hopefully given the size she wants, she’ll find a school that’s a campus with surrounding streets instead of through streets.
I do think politics at most schools are overrated. Most kids go to school and aren’t political, even at southern schools rated conservative. It’s there if you want it though.
You find anti semitism and racism at blue state schools - even ones like Tufts, UCLA, Michigan, Lehigh which have all been in the news recently . And others like Yale in the past few years.
I’m not sure that in most cases, politics needs to be a consideration unless your student plans to be political. I do understand though that some want to avoid certain states due to state laws. But often red states ( like a South Carolina) have blue bubbles (like Charleston).
Good luck.