Most and least educated states in the U.S.

[Guno צְבִי]

Among the top five, Massachusetts scored 81.84 points. The Bay State also ranked No. 1 for educational attainment and quality of education, having the highest percentage of bachelor’s and graduate or professional degree holders.

guess which states are the low IQ states

The red jesuland states

The southern state’s educational attainment rank was 35 and it ranked at No. 21 for quality of education.

Colorado scored 71.24, Vermont scored 70.61 and Connecticut scored 70.47. Mississippi came in last place, scoring 21.01 points.

https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/most...a-fails-crack-the-top/lxCssvrosNb7MT2waoiVSJ/

 

[Guno צְבִי]

The 10 states that made WalletHub's least educated list were primarily in the South, including Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, West Virginia and Mississippi.

inbreeders

 

[Saudade]

Among the top five, Massachusetts scored 81.84 points. The Bay State also ranked No. 1 for educational attainment and quality of education, having the highest percentage of bachelor’s and graduate or professional degree holders.

guess which states are the low IQ states

The red jesuland states

The southern state’s educational attainment rank was 35 and it ranked at No. 21 for quality of education.

Colorado scored 71.24, Vermont scored 70.61 and Connecticut scored 70.47. Mississippi came in last place, scoring 21.01 points.

https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/most...a-fails-crack-the-top/lxCssvrosNb7MT2waoiVSJ/

Education and IQ aren't the same. Also, I don't think you want to go down the IQ road in this discussion. Charles Murray and several others have done research on this, and the results were controversial due to the racial implications.

 

[signalmankenneth]

We need to invest in education in this country, as in better teachers and teacher pay, newer schools that are tailored to today's jobs and economy?!! It was the least educated that gave us Trump and McConnell and others?!! Remember an under educated society is easy to control and manipulate too!

 

[Bigdog]

Another excuse for aristocratic rich white libs to bash the Black States.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

meanwhile......guano is one of the least educated people in the United States.......

 

[Walt]

The best correlation to trump voters is worsening health outcomes. They are the part of America losing life expectancy, and dragging down the average for the rest of us.

The second best correlation is uneducated rural whites. And the third best correlation is uneducated whites. trump has done well with whites with a high school or less education. If you are white and have less than a 9th grade education, you almost certainly voted for trump.

In many ways, trump is a reaction to automation. Uneducated whites who expected to be well paid even though they had no education are shocked that automation is taking their jobs.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

The 10 states that made WalletHub's least educated list were primarily in the South, including Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, West Virginia and Mississippi.

inbreeders

Even the ones that aren't in the South, like Ohio and Missouri, ranked poorly. What I saw as the common denominator was the state's government -- is it mostly blue or mostly red? The red ones fared the worst.

Here is the data in table format:

https://wallethub.com/edu/e/most-educated-states/31075/

 

[Flash]

The best correlation to trump voters is worsening health outcomes. They are the part of America losing life expectancy, and dragging down the average for the rest of us.

The second best correlation is uneducated rural whites. And the third best correlation is uneducated whites. trump has done well with whites with a high school or less education. If you are white and have less than a 9th grade education, you almost certainly voted for trump.

In many ways, trump is a reaction to automation. Uneducated whites who expected to be well paid even though they had no education are shocked that automation is taking their jobs.

You got it wrong.The Trump voters are whites without a degree, some college, and white college graduates. The lowest educational levels are 1) Hispanics and 2) blacks. These two groups vote heavily Democratic.

And Trump could not win with the rural vote, he had to win the suburbs.

"Suburban voters particularly put Trump ahead in the crucial Midwestern states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and came close to winning him supposedly deep blue Minnesota. This is where the Democratic falloff from the Obama years was most evident, notes Mike Barone, falling from dropping from 54 percent for Obama to 2008 to 45 percent this year."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2016/11/22/donald-trump-clinton-rural-suburbs/#3bbda3bc38b5

These educated Democrats have problems analyzing elections. And describing Trump voters as ignorant is why the Democrats have lost the votes of the working class. They want to write off the majority of Americans who are white without college degrees.

And nobody is bringing down your life expectancy just because the average is falling.

 

[Walt]

You got it wrong.The Trump voters are whites without a degree, some college, and white college graduates. The lowest educational levels are 1) Hispanics and 2) blacks. These two groups vote heavily Democratic.

And Trump could not win with the rural vote, he had to win the suburbs.

"Suburban voters particularly put Trump ahead in the crucial Midwestern states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and came close to winning him supposedly deep blue Minnesota. This is where the Democratic falloff from the Obama years was most evident, notes Mike Barone, falling from dropping from 54 percent for Obama to 2008 to 45 percent this year."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2016/11/22/donald-trump-clinton-rural-suburbs/#3bbda3bc38b5

These educated Democrats have problems analyzing elections. And describing Trump voters as ignorant is why the Democrats have lost the votes of the working class. They want to write off the majority of Americans who are white without college degrees.

And nobody is bringing down your life expectancy just because the average is falling.

Poorly educated voters hold the keys to the White House
A new paper suggests that voters without degrees are uniquely placed to pick the next president

Graphic detail
Nov 11th 2019
IT WAS IN the 1970s that American politics began to polarise around voters’ levels of educational attainment. The Republican Party, until then a party of tweedy north-easterners, began recruiting less-educated southern whites, alienated by the civil-rights movement. Over time, the partisan gap between college-educated voters and less-educated ones widened. In 2016 it exploded. The Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, found that overall, college graduates favoured Hillary Clinton by 21 percentage points, while those without a degree backed Donald Trump by a seven-point margin. Among whites, the difference is greater: those without a college degree backed Mr Trump over Mrs Clinton by a margin of more than two to one.

How far did this educational divide determine the outcome of the 2016 election? To answer this question, Michael Sances of Temple University collected data on presidential-election results and education levels in each of America’s 3,000-plus counties from 1972 to 2016. Mr Sances finds that the gap in support for Democratic candidates between the highest- and the lowest-educated counties grew significantly between 2012 and 2016, from about 16 percentage points to 28 percentage points (see chart). This disparity has grown especially quickly in midwestern swing states. In Iowa, for example, Hillary Clinton won 66% of the vote in better-educated counties, up from Barack Obama’s 61% share in 2012, but only 27% in less-educated ones, down from 46%.

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According to Mr Sances, this shift in political support was decisive to Mr Trump’s victory in 2016. Had the counties in the bottom 10% of the education distribution stuck to their voting behaviour in 2012, Mrs Clinton would have been tied with Mr Trump in the electoral college. Had the counties in the bottom 20% done so, she would have won. As the 2020 election approaches, Democrats will have to think seriously about how to bring less-educated voters back to their side. The party’s current focus on left-leaning government programmes such as Medicare for All, which tend to be popular with well-educated liberals but poll poorly among blue-collar white voters, are unlikely to tilt the scales back in their favour.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-d...cated-voters-hold-the-keys-to-the-white-house

 

[Life is Golden]

Among the top five, Massachusetts scored 81.84 points. The Bay State also ranked No. 1 for educational attainment and quality of education, having the highest percentage of bachelor’s and graduate or professional degree holders.

guess which states are the low IQ states

The red jesuland states

The southern state’s educational attainment rank was 35 and it ranked at No. 21 for quality of education.

Colorado scored 71.24, Vermont scored 70.61 and Connecticut scored 70.47. Mississippi came in last place, scoring 21.01 points.

https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/most...a-fails-crack-the-top/lxCssvrosNb7MT2waoiVSJ/

The "top 4" are places that are 99.9% white. Some residents of Vermont never saw a black person until they traveled South.

Dumb Goon-o, trashing the predominantly black states.

 

[katzgar]

Education and IQ aren't the same. Also, I don't think you want to go down the IQ road in this discussion. Charles Murray and several others have done research on this, and the results were controversial due to the racial implications.

Post like this are why it's so easy to make fun of you morons

 

[Walt]

The "top 4" are places that are 99.9% white.

Connecticut is 10.1% black, and Massachusetts is 8.8% black. Only 79% of people in Massachusetts speak English at home, with 7.5% speaking Spanish at home. Both states have a little over 70% non-hispanic whites. That is far less than 99.9%.

Colorado has exactly 70% non-hispanic whites. It has only 4% black, but a lot more Hispanics.

 

[RB 60]

meanwhile......guano is one of the least educated people in the United States.......

He claims to have a Master's Degree...

 

[RB 60]

Poorly educated voters hold the keys to the White House
A new paper suggests that voters without degrees are uniquely placed to pick the next president

Graphic detail
Nov 11th 2019
IT WAS IN the 1970s that American politics began to polarise around voters’ levels of educational attainment. The Republican Party, until then a party of tweedy north-easterners, began recruiting less-educated southern whites, alienated by the civil-rights movement. Over time, the partisan gap between college-educated voters and less-educated ones widened. In 2016 it exploded. The Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, found that overall, college graduates favoured Hillary Clinton by 21 percentage points, while those without a degree backed Donald Trump by a seven-point margin. Among whites, the difference is greater: those without a college degree backed Mr Trump over Mrs Clinton by a margin of more than two to one.

How far did this educational divide determine the outcome of the 2016 election? To answer this question, Michael Sances of Temple University collected data on presidential-election results and education levels in each of America’s 3,000-plus counties from 1972 to 2016. Mr Sances finds that the gap in support for Democratic candidates between the highest- and the lowest-educated counties grew significantly between 2012 and 2016, from about 16 percentage points to 28 percentage points (see chart). This disparity has grown especially quickly in midwestern swing states. In Iowa, for example, Hillary Clinton won 66% of the vote in better-educated counties, up from Barack Obama’s 61% share in 2012, but only 27% in less-educated ones, down from 46%.

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According to Mr Sances, this shift in political support was decisive to Mr Trump’s victory in 2016. Had the counties in the bottom 10% of the education distribution stuck to their voting behaviour in 2012, Mrs Clinton would have been tied with Mr Trump in the electoral college. Had the counties in the bottom 20% done so, she would have won. As the 2020 election approaches, Democrats will have to think seriously about how to bring less-educated voters back to their side. The party’s current focus on left-leaning government programmes such as Medicare for All, which tend to be popular with well-educated liberals but poll poorly among blue-collar white voters, are unlikely to tilt the scales back in their favour.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-d...cated-voters-hold-the-keys-to-the-white-house

You seem to have an infatuation with the "poorly educated." What is your criteria for one to be "uneducated," and why? Who then, are the "educated"?

 

[Walt]

You seem to have an infatuation with the "poorly educated." What is your criteria for one to be "uneducated," and why? Who then, are the "educated"?

White uneducated men got trump elected, and are bringing down the average life expectancy of America for three years in a row. There is something going very wrong with them, and their pain is hitting the rest of us. I am trying to understand them.

I would consider uneducated to be people with a high school diploma or less. They may have vocational training, but would not have a college education.

There is an ill-defined subgroup which do not have a clear label. The fact that trump voters better correlate with worsen health outcomes than with the greater group of uneducated whites means that there is a subgroup that is both trump voters, and having worsening health outcomes.

 

[Life is Golden]

Connecticut is 10.1% black, and Massachusetts is 8.8% black. Only 79% of people in Massachusetts speak English at home, with 7.5% speaking Spanish at home. Both states have a little over 70% non-hispanic whites. That is far less than 99.9%.

Colorado has exactly 70% non-hispanic whites. It has only 4% black, but a lot more Hispanics.

You didn't mention Vermont, lol.

Juxtapose the "top states" against the bottom states by racial demographics.

There is an undeniable racial component.

 

[RB 60]

White uneducated men got trump elected, and are bringing down the average life expectancy of America for three years in a row. There is something going very wrong with them, and their pain is hitting the rest of us. I am trying to understand them.

I would consider uneducated to be people with a high school diploma or less. They may have vocational training, but would not have a college education.

There is an ill-defined subgroup which do not have a clear label. The fact that trump voters better correlate with worsen health outcomes than with the greater group of uneducated whites means that there is a subgroup that is both trump voters, and having worsening health outcomes.

So, you believe that only college graduates are "educated"? Do you believe someone without an "education" cannot work themselves up into a position in what you might consider (ie: management) only the "educated" can?

 

[Walt]

You didn't mention Vermont, lol.

Juxtapose the "top states" against the bottom states by racial demographics.

There is an undeniable racial component.

Vermont is VERY white, but the rest on the list are only an average amount white.

 

[Walt]

So, you believe that only college graduates are "educated"? Do you believe someone without an "education" cannot work themselves up into a position in what you might consider (ie: management) only the "educated" can?

You seem desperate to take offense. Yes, I consider only formally educated people to be formally educated. We cannot figure out how many people "self educated", or even a good definition of that.

Education is not a guarantee of success, or even of ability. There are uneducated people who are CEOs of companies.