Northwestern is in Evanston/Chicago. Chicago is in Illinois. Illinois is in the Rust Belt aka the Upper Midwest.
So, these ‘intelligent’ Northwestern students, many of whom also grew up in the Rust Belt, now attend a school in the Rust Belt and can see the Rust Belt in ruins all around them and still conclude that unions are a good thing.
Northwestern has a national student body. The ex-player who led this unionization thing is from Denver,CO.