<p>When I say “southern”, I’m looking at the whole picture of CVL: University and Community. I’m saying “Southern” and I’m saying it loud and proud of it!!!
Yes, there are lots of students from NOVA, but there are lots from elsewhere as well, like, Richmond, Va. Beach, Lynchburg, Galax, Dante, Martinsville..etc. The OOS students I’ve met are from everywhere: FL, NC, GA, TN, KY, IL, London England, Germany…
As a southerner myself, I think I’m quite sophisticated in recognizing the southern mystique when I encounter it. CVL, IMO, is a very nice southern town. The University is southern, IMO, and the CVL people reflect what one commonly finds in old southern towns–some poverty, some crime, nice people, southern manners. If one ventures even 10 minutes out in any pathway from CVL, one will find bucolic, gorgeous farmland. Go further, and one will find Civil War memorials, one after another.
I don’t really care about quoted student #'s and such. I know what I want/like in a Southern University, and I have found it here at UVA.</p>