[OldCorps]

Bloomington IN is testimony to economic ruin wrecked by liberals and socialists. I lived there from 1958 to 1976. In those years it was a vibrant town.

I go back to Bloomington once a year and see economic ruin, despite the fact that it is home to the state’s land grant university. GE has left, RCA has left; in fact any kind of industry in Bloomingtion packed up a long time ago, and now the city looks far worse-buildings and houses in disrepair. The only businesses are trendy coffee shops and restaurants on 4th st and other service oriented providers.

Its depressing there, and frankly I’m always glad to leave at the end of my visit.

[wordsofearnest]

I’m about 50 miles southwest of there. I call it “The Peoples Republik of Bloomington”

It has been proported to have the highest per capita male homosexual population in the nation.

[tcrlaf]

“I go back to Bloomington once a year and see economic ruin”

It’s becoming a liberalized version of Muncie. Vast stretches of depressed areas surrounding a conclave of incredibly-paid state employees...

[muawiyah]

Indiana University was established LONG BEFORE landgrant universities came along. You are thinking of Purdue University, in West Lafayette. That's a johnny-come-lately school dependent on public largess from its foundation.

My 5 or 6 times Great Grandfather George Dunn donated the IU campus out of his own property. Half the named streets in town were named after other of my relatives.

Are you sure you've ever been in Bloomington, Indiana?

[muawiyah]

BTW, GE's gone, RCA is gone ~ done in by major changes in the world of electronics ~ recall that no one makes TV tubes anymore.

Stents are in ~ people in Bloomington manufacture them. The entire West side is new since the early 1990s ~ you might have missed that.