Most and least educated states in the U.S.

Walt said:
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

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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
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Yes, I am aware of these studies, but it does not refute any of my statements. The charts that show Democratic vote in higher education counties is growing, but the full charts show Democrats were still most likely to win the counties with the lowest educational levels. The lower educational level are the most likely to vote Democratic. Unlike the OP, that is not something I see as a negative or something to denigrate these people for, just a fact.

And "uneducated" is not the same as no degree. It is a description of the majority of Americans.
 
katzgar said:
play any drug addled games you wish. The south is a shithole
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If the South is a shithole those northern states the population is moving from to go South must be extra shitty. They are also leaving leaving states like CA with the highest poverty rate to go to TX, AZ, NV.

That means more House seats and electoral votes.

"The ten fastest growing states between 2017 and 2018 all were in the South and West, including Nevada, Utah, and Texas. Meanwhile, states in the Northeast and Midwest regions have grown more slowly than the 5.3 percent U.S. average population growth rate. In the Northeast particularly, population growth has lagged behind every other region in the country this decade.

The biggest seat gains will likely be seen in Florida and Texas. Texas is likely to gain three congressional seats, Election Data Services projects that Alabama, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and West Virginia will lose at least one congressional seat, with New York potentially losing a second, as well. California and Minnesota are borderline cases, with each facing the possibility of losing up to one seat."
 
guno said:
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.
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You would think those red states would be doing better since we are always being told the blue states are subsidizing them with tax dollars.

That income redistribution idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor seems to be counter-productive. We need to tell Sanders and Warren before they do something stupid.
 
Flash said:
You would think those red states would be doing better since we are always being told the blue states are subsidizing them with tax dollars.

That income redistribution idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor seems to be counter-productive. We need to tell Sanders and Warren before they do something stupid.
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The 1% is doing great
 
Woko Haram said:
Come to NC, and you'll see that the Deep South is very different from the "New South." North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia are quite different from Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi.
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The deep South and the new South are all trump States so they are homophobic and racist
 
Woko Haram said:
It is true that Louisiana is experiencing negative growth, but they are still diverse. They have a significantly higher black population than a lot of the Midwest, for example.

A lot of the South is experiencing heavy growth, however. North Carolina is both diverse and fast growing. So is Georgia. So is South Carolina.

As for things like education, it really depends on where you live within the state. Some cities are better than others about it, and it is often a matter of what part of the city you're in. Atlanta has both good schools and bad schools. The same is true for Charlotte. But this is true for just about every major city. Even cities that rank highly in education still have a few bad schools. Look at Boston, for example.

Healthcare is similar. Because of how oligopolistic many healthcare networks can be, some cities have great systems, while others are terrible. Variance can be high within the same state.

Roads are easier to generalize on the state level, because highways are usually managed by the state government (although interstate highways are partially funded and often partially managed by the feds). There are definitely some states that aren't as good in their road systems. There are parts of South Carolina that have terrible roads, so I'll give you that.
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there really is no conversation here I don't even know why you're trying the numbers are the numbers it's very easy to research the southern states are shitholes States
 
Miss Margot Frank said:
Only Billionaires and morons vote red
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All politicians spend our money. We as voters have the duty to ponder what we want it spent on, then vote for the candidates most likely to follow our priorities. Education is not a priority for (R)s. Sure, they scream loudly when forced to admit that America's kids are falling behind other countries' students in the education realm. But their answer is to impose more testing ("No Child Left Behind") while doing nothing to make actual effective changes.
 
I do like standardized testing though. You need to do some sort of science to locate what needs fixing the most. I don't want morons doing Jesus tests
or stomping out science and passing on the kids only to lose jobs to Trump's Mubai based cheesy power tie factories.

How long until the Christians allege arithmetic is a culture war weapon against them? Probably next election cycle. :palm: Integers are satan's playground.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
All politicians spend our money. We as voters have the duty to ponder what we want it spent on, then vote for the candidates most likely to follow our priorities. Education is not a priority for (R)s. Sure, they scream loudly when forced to admit that America's kids are falling behind other countries' students in the education realm. But their answer is to impose more testing ("No Child Left Behind") while doing nothing to make actual effective changes.
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What is it Democrats are doing to improve education if its supposedly a priority for them?


Edit: And I agree with you that NCLB was cr*p. Total federal overreach with over emphasis on testing. That was the ultimate bi-partisan boondoggle.
 
guno said:
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/
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The study on which this article is based is about the lower level of education rural students receive compared to city and suburbs.
 
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cawacko said:
Money is obviously important but from the article, "Repeated increases in school funding in recent years have not slowed calls for more money".

To me this is the exact reason why our education doesn't change and improve. We stick with the status quo, ask for money and when then that doesn't work continue to ask for more money. Rinse, wash and repeat.
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The government is a money factory with chutes and ladders and we pay them to direct it.

Denying that Dems want more total in and more out the edumacation chute and poor person chute, and Rs want less total in from the rich and more out the bomb bay door
and rich guy chute is just wrong. You prove it, you are an R and just said money doesn't work for ed for some magical mystical reason you haven't explained.. Money makes a better bomb same as it makes better ed with better books, better infrastructure and better teachers.
Explain why that should not be so.
 
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