That was good for a belly laugh. You should come to the Peoples' Republic of Berkeley or the Peoples' Republic of Cambridge (both are mere shadows of their 1960s-70s heydays) to see what real leftist urban centers look like. I wonder if Kansans call the area around the University of Kansas the 'Peoples' Republic of Witchita'? No, that would be going too far. Anyway, I get your drift about CO. Springs. Sounds like a rather scary place, with a lot of conformity, and it's not surprising that the dropout rate was low. But it proves my point that white non-urban areas did better, and you could take a place like Boise, ID and get similar numbers. Mex-Ams will tend to skew the numbers upwards, Asian-Ams downwards.