Me too. The people, and some students, there are bitter about everything, trust no one, have no faith in anything or anyone - they seem to get validation only from finding people and groups to hate. But I also saw they go about their lives seeking for the very benefits that a capitalistic Republic with strong moral values has brought : safe neighborhoods for their kids, wealth, good health, and peace. You'll never find that they would never admit to such.
I went there a public school system-brainwashed Marxist and left there a re-affirmed Reagan Republican (I was one when I was little).
My experience exactly.