re: Outside of Starkville, is Baton Rouge the trashiest SEC college town?

And yes, Mississippi is the epicenter of class lol. Hugh “Pimp” Freeze and Lane Kiffin fit the culture very well during their time in Oxford. I still recall when the Ole Miss player did his imitation of a pissing dog and cost the Rebs the Egg Bowl. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Yes. It stinks too.

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Now, the cheesiness of "Vegas" is another story.

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Something tells me you don't know the origin story.

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Madison is nothing but white flight out of Jackson, which can't even sustain a potable water supply for its citizens.

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White Flight when they leave, Gentrification when they move in.

Lived in BR for several years late 90s, undergrad and few years working. Obviously a lot has changed there and many places since, so I could be wrong in many ways, but BR doesn’t seem any worse than any other city of comparable size and demographics. And especially relative to LSU campus and surrounding areas, that have actually improved in later years.
Avoid North BR, which isn’t hard because there’s no reason to go there anyway. A couple other roughish areas around as well.
Doesn’t seem nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

Raise a family? Oxford

Be a college kid? Baton Rouge