<p>I think a lot of it has to do with what the Democratic/liberal/progressive student is used to.</p>
<p>There’s no question that TAMU would be gigantic culture shock for a liberal kid from Chicago. But most liberals in Texas grow up with plenty of exposure to TAMU-type culture. They have a better idea of what they would be getting into. So even if there are happy liberals at TAMU (and there must be at a school that large), a prospective needs to ask whether SHE would be among them. Maybe some of those happy TAMU liberals grew up in Midland or Waco and had years to learn how to be happy swimming upstream.</p>