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Originally posted by KEPike
My big concern with this, and Betarulz, please respond and let me know if I am incorrect, is that many times the chapter's membership is based on regions (large majority comes from x for 5 years, then shifts to x for 5 years, etc.) and this causes these chapters to have difficulty recruiting in different areas.
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It definately depends on the house, and it is something that is brought up a lot. The thing about Nebraska is that approximately half of the state's population comes from either Lincoln or Omaha, and I'd say that of the instate kids, the % is even higher of incoming freshmen as a lot of the small town kids tend to go to the smaller state schools. So a lot of all houses come from those two places
Like I said though it totally depends on the chapter. Chapter X may get all the guys from Town Y, and there have been cases in which more than half of a chapter's pledge class (12 out of 23) came from one HS in Omaha. My house has a strong contingent from Sioux Falls, and South Dakota, but overall we're pretty diverse.
More than houses signing people to get at capacity, I think the biggest cause of getting a bunch of guys from one place is chapter weakness. The strong chapters are able to attract people from all over, b/c who doesn't want to be part of the best, but the chapters that aren't doing well, tend to have to rely more on who the brothers know.
As for Chicago...It's totally Great Lakes area...you may not be an eastern city but youre neither west nor mid enough to be mid west
Check out a thread in Chit Chat called Northerner Rules (do a search) and try to find the first post I made in that thread. If I remember correctly it defined the midwest unequivocally.