RAND SIMBERG CHARGES PROF. JACK LEVIN OF NORTHEASTERN with bigotry. I noticed that, too. Honestly, I think the University of Alabama at Hunstville is at least as high a quality institution as Northeastern.

UPDATE: Matt Edens writes:

The suggestion that Huntsville = Hicksville jumped out at me, too (wrote a City Confidential about the place back in the day).

Did a quick google trying to compare percentage of PhD’s but came up dry. But I did discover that Hunstville’s median household and family incomes are both higher. $41K/$52K for Huntsville vs. $39K/$44K for Boston.

Oh, and Forbes named it one of the ten best cities for recession recovery.

Really, he should have considered his words more carefully. Casual uninformed bigotry never looks good.