ADVERTISEMENTCo-authored by Suhas Gondi, a senior undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis. It's a strange feeling to watch a presidential debate unfold at your alma mater. Consider the example of St. Louis -- a city whose narrative has embodied America's narrative since the days of Lewis and Clark, far beyond its quintessentially American love for beer and baseball. By any measure, the St. Louis of today is home to both visions of America projected by our presidential candidates over the past fifteen months. With a sizeable and long-established Bosnian refugee population, St. Louis could even provoke and inform conversations about the anxieties people feel about integrating Syrian refugees into our society today.

Source: Huffington Post October 19, 2016 19:18 UTC