{"id":3840,"date":"2020-02-04T04:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2020-02-04T04:33:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:33:21","slug":"new-gentrification-destination-for-uchicago-students-rural-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/04\/new-gentrification-destination-for-uchicago-students-rural-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gentrification Destination for UChicago Students: Rural Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As election season heats up, thousands of college students are flocking to Iowa to take their political condescension from Twitter replies to Iowa pig farmers \u2013 which is to say, to a whole new level. The nation-wide escalation hasn\u2019t escaped UChicago students\u2019 notice, and accordingly, a significant contingent piled into their daddy\u2019s jeeps and luxury SUVs to canvas for their chosen Socialist this past weekend. A bystander described the scene on Friday evening as the \u201clargest exodus of white folks from Hyde Park since the Eisenhower administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their destination? The rural Iowa town of Mid ElAmerica, where the weekend canvassers have plans to \u201ceconomically develop\u201d the \u201cunfortunately backwards\u201d town into a haven of over-sized single family developments and trendy, over-priced cafes. All this while spending more time posting on social media about their experience than actually talking to voters; just as Marx would have wanted!<\/p>\n<p>Veteran campaign volunteer and UChicago fourth-year Rebecca Doolittle, who is returning to Iowa for the fourth time this election cycle alone, described the situation on the ground as \u201cgross.\u201d In a comment to the Dealer, she said, \u201cYou know, it\u2019s really easy to get caught up in the San Francisco-UChicago bubble and just think that every low-income minority community has already been effectively forced from their homes due to gentrification. But here I can\u2019t find a single place that serves <a class=\"_35i0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.messenger.com\/t\/john.buterbaugh.90#\" data-p2p-trigger=\"$10\">$10<\/a> kombucha or accepts my Apple Card. You don\u2019t always realize there\u2019s still so many communities that live without gentrification in their lives. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here; to bring it to them!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the Republican Caucus effectively moot due to the GOP\u2019s full-throated capitulation to Trumpism, Iowa Republicans have turned their attention to the \u201cemerging immigration crisis\u201d brought on by UChicago students\u2019 weekend s\u00e9jour. Local Trump supporter Robin Usblind told the Dealer, \u201cI didn\u2019t think I could be against more white people moving into my community, but these guys are just the absolute worst. Turns out liberal New Yorkers are the real threat to America. Good thing I\u2019m voting for President Trump; I don\u2019t think he\u2019s ever even been to New York!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the Dealer, University officials congratulated the students for \u201cmaintaining the University\u2019s proud legacy of making sure poor people know we\u2019re better than them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As election season heats up, thousands of college students are flocking to Iowa to take their political condescension from Twitter replies to Iowa pig farmers \u2013 which is to say, to a whole new level. The nation-wide escalation hasn\u2019t escaped UChicago students\u2019 notice, and accordingly, a significant contingent piled into their daddy\u2019s jeeps and luxury SUVs to canvas for their chosen Socialist this past weekend. A bystander described the scene on Friday evening as the \u201clargest exodus of white folks from Hyde Park since the Eisenhower administration.\u201d Their destination? The rural Iowa town of Mid ElAmerica, where the weekend canvassers have plans to \u201ceconomically develop\u201d the \u201cunfortunately backwards\u201d town into a haven of over-sized single family developments and trendy, over-priced cafes. All this while spending more time posting on social media about their experience than actually talking to voters; just as Marx would have wanted! Veteran campaign volunteer and UChicago fourth-year Rebecca Doolittle, who is returning to Iowa for the fourth time this election cycle alone, described the situation on the ground as \u201cgross.\u201d In a comment to the Dealer, she said, \u201cYou know, it\u2019s really easy to get caught up in the San Francisco-UChicago bubble and just think that every low-income minority community has already been effectively forced from their homes due to gentrification. But here I can\u2019t find a single place that serves $10 kombucha or accepts my Apple Card. You don\u2019t always realize there\u2019s still so many communities that live without gentrification in their lives. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here; to bring it to them!\u201d With the Republican Caucus effectively moot due to the GOP\u2019s full-throated capitulation to Trumpism, Iowa Republicans have turned their attention to the \u201cemerging immigration crisis\u201d brought on by UChicago students\u2019 weekend s\u00e9jour. Local Trump supporter Robin Usblind told the Dealer, \u201cI didn\u2019t think I could be against more white people moving into my community, but these guys are just the absolute worst. Turns out liberal New Yorkers are the real threat to America. Good thing I\u2019m voting for President Trump; I don\u2019t think he\u2019s ever even been to New York!\u201d In a statement to the Dealer, University officials congratulated the students for \u201cmaintaining the University\u2019s proud legacy of making sure poor people know we\u2019re better than them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}