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...That idea of a borderless world makes sense to Kuang Yinghuan, who arrived in Japan in 2002 as part of a high-school exchange program that each year brings 200 top students from China's northeast to Japan. Five years on, Kuang's Japanese is impeccable and he's a first-year graduate student at the University of Tokyo. "When I first came here, people made fun of me because I didn't speak Japanese well," he says with a grimace. "But now, when I tell them I'm a University of Tokyo student, they think of me as that...
...Thayer map is not an exact representation of the Harvard student body, but it does reflect the trends. According to admissions data published in the Harvard University Gazette, 44 percent of the class of 2011 is from the Northeast (New England and mid-Atlantic regions), 20 percent is from the West, 16 percent is from the South, and 11 percent is from the Midwest (the rest are international). These numbers hardly match up with the actual population distribution in the U.S. As reported by the Census Bureau in 2005, only 18 percent of the population lives in the Northeast...
...answer is, of course, partly economic, but perceptions are also important. Many people on the coasts view the center states as flyover country populated by hillbillies. Many in the center, conversely, see those on the coasts, particularly the Northeast, as elitist snobs. Unfortunately, Harvard is often considered the epitome of these stereotypes...
...desert is a tough sell for a vacation. "Come to nothing" is not a slogan ever likely to draw amusement-park crowds. Which is why most visitors to South Africa, steered to Kruger National Park in the northeast and to the coastal vineyards of the southwest, often don't notice the country is half scrub. That two-hour flight between Johannesburg and Cape Town? That was the desert...
...second crucial difference is demographic. By 1960 there were 35 to 40 million Catholics in the U.S., strategically settled in a dozen swing states from the Northeast across the Midwest. Those voters had in many cases gone for Eisenhower. Kennedy wanted to bring them home to the Democrats. Playing the religion card might have helped Richard Nixon in southern and border states, where he was already strong, but would have cost him in swing industrial states that he badly needed to win, so Nixon made a point of telling his people not to raise the religious issue (a plea that...