‘It won’t sway opinions:’ Troy University students weigh in on Biden’s upcoming visit to Alabama missile factory
The focus of Michael Slobodchikoff’s contemporary American foreign policy class this semester at Troy University has been on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The county is Republican, and reliably so. Presidential and major election differentials have not changed much in the rural county south of Montgomery for the past two decades: The county even backed Roy Moore during the 2017 special Senate election, which Democratic candidate Doug Jones won. It was a tighter contest, but Moore receive 150 more votes in Pike County than Jones.
, behind Auburn, the University of Alabama, and the University of Alabama at Huntsville, among others.Zach Lewis, 21, a political science major from Pensacola, described Troy’s campus as more fragmented where pockets of red and blue congregate among themselves.“I don’t think the sides talk the way they should,” he said. “It’s everyone in their echo chamber repeating what they hear.”
“It won’t make anyone suddenly think he’s a better president down here,” Kiger said. “We are a very deep red state. We are in a very deep red county. It won’t sway opinions.”
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