![]() ![]() It’s in the middle of the Bible Belt, with large Pentecostal and Baptist congregations. Culturally and politically, though, Nixa was a shock. The Yancys, who have three children, were living in a Seattle suburb, which had become prohibitively expensive Missouri, where Cirt had gone to high school, seemed a better bet. News & World Report rated it as the top high school in the area. ![]() Twice in the past decade, its high school was designated a “blue-ribbon school” by the U.S. In the past thirty years, its population has more than quadrupled, from five thousand to more than twenty thousand, turning a small agricultural community into a manicured enclave of recently constructed town houses set amid rolling hills. The town sits on the Ozark Plateau, a dozen miles from Springfield, in the southwest corner of the state. Five years ago, Tamara and Cirt Yancy moved to Nixa, Missouri, for the schools. ![]()
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