hometown

I have lived 34 years in a small university town whose ambiance suits me very well. The smallness gives it a basically conservative flavor. The university gives it a liberal aspirational quality. I came of age in the sixties and “therefore” developed a liberal self-image. However, my liberal friends indicate that I no longer qualify for the label. The most important litmus test that I fail on is that I do not support the notion of the Supreme Court as a continuously sitting constitutional convention. I am probably no longer any more to that side than say “center left”. Perhaps I like this place so much because it is one of the (probably few) places where I can simultaneously hold my beliefs and retain that self-image.