I grew up in Arkansas, and I went to Little Rock Central High, which was the site of a desegregation crisis in '57. I graduated in '97.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was 18, I moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.
I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South.
I went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar to attend the best colleges and universities in the country.
I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.
I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.