So, we're circling back around to this tired old topic? Your article states:
"A state being on the least educated list does not mean that all of the people who live there are not smart. Just as residing in a state is one of the most educated does not make an entire population brilliant, being on the least educated list doesn’t make everyone in a state dumb. There are people of different educational levels in every state."
Plus it's not very in depth. It doesn't define "least educated". Most of the time those old articles mean people who only completed up to 1 year of college. It takes a lot more smarts than readin', writin' and 'rithmatic to figure out the quality and real-life stances a person takes on caring for the populace of a nation.