Word: bush
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...Bush's Yale education was as much a question of learning how to navigate a new culture as it was of hitting the books, and he found his refuge in athletics and his fraternity...
Ironically, Texans found his Yale background as alien as the Yalies found the Lone Star State resident. In 1978, Bush ran for Congress from Texas against Democrat Kent R. Hance. Hance, a graduate of the University of Texas and of Texas Tech University, looked at Bush's Yale degree and immediately saw his opening...
Hance painted a picture of Bush as an Ivy League carpetbagger, trying to wreak havoc on a state he did not understand...
...tried to make it Texas Tech Raiders versus the Yale Bulldogs," says Hance, who is now one of Bush's biggest supporters. "He was well-educated and we used that against him; a lot of people around here feel that a lot of the problems around here in the last 100 years have been created by Ivy Leaguers...
With that strategy in hand, Hance defeated Bush with more than 53 percent of the vote...