“At first, there was this huge urge to just get away and get out.”
. The question is what do they do and where do they go when they either can’t leave or don’t want to.
Eighteen-year-old Fiona Lawrence knows the feeling. She too lives in the Dallas area, in the suburb of Frisco. While her family and friends' thoughts about politics are similar to hers, there are times when a student at her high school will say something homophobic and she’ll realize that not everyone agrees. “It feels like a punch in the face. I didn’t realize that was happening,” Lawrence says.
Others make the transition to a state whose politics may feel less familiar in college. Ilana Drake, 19, knew Vanderbilt was the right choice because of the way being on campus made her feel, the academics, and the warmer weather. Yet she also knew the move from New York City’s Upper West Side to Nashville was going to be a transition. Even on the drive to move in, Drake started to get a sense of how different things would be.
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