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The Big USA List

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May/June 1997
Jay Walljasper, Daniel Kracker Utne Reader 
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New York ~ Ithaca : (see top ten list)

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North Carolina ~ Durham: (see top ten list)

North Dakota ~ Fargo: A tidy town with an almost European sense of public culture -- great library, great parks, and the Plains Art Museum, which trucks art around to small towns.

Ohio ~ Athens: A college town stuck in the '60s, which is not such a bad thing at all. There's strong resistance to strip mining and logging in nearby hills and national forests.

Oklahoma ~ Norman: Infused with the populist Oklahoma spirit that inspired Woody Guthrie, which rose up here to promote green spaces and limit sprawl.

Oregon ~ Portland: (see top ten list)

Pennsylvania ~ Pittsburgh: A tradition of labor activism that crops up in other political arenas -- more than 2,000 marched at a recent police accountability rally. Ranked very high by American Demographics magazine for civic engagement.

Rhode Island ~ Providence: (see top ten list)

South Carolina ~ Charleston: Under Mayor Joe Riley, the nation's leading model of historic preservation, with sympathy for the needs of poor people as well.

South Dakota ~ Sioux Falls: Highest percentage of working women in the U.S. Home to the only gay bar in the state.

Tennessee ~ Chattanooga: (see top ten list)

Texas ~ Austin: Still the liberal bastion of Texas, the countercultural mecca of the South, and the alternative music capital of the U.S., but suburban sprawl threatens to bring the whole place down.

Utah ~ Salt Lake City: A beautiful, walkable, safe (no Mormon street gangs) city that has taken on a more tolerant, less parochial feel in recent years.

Vermont ~ Burlington: (see top ten list)

Virginia ~ Arlington: Snidely referred to in the state capital (along with Arlington) as the People's Republic of Northern Virginia. Wonderful old architecture.

Washington ~ Seattle: Smug -- but with some justification.

West Virginia ~ Morgantown: Where a 90-year-old university student recently led the fight to diversify local cable programming and bring Black Entertainment Television to town.

Wisconsin ~ Madison: (see top ten list)

Wyoming ~ Laramie: A university town two hours from Denver and minutes from a national wilderness area.

Part of cover story section, June/July 1997.

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