Mason Melchizedek
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What it means is the South are knuckle draggers
The family that fucks together stays together!
What it means is the South are knuckle draggers
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
The President is not elected by popular vote.
The second worst state is West Virginia, which has almost no blacks... Odd how that works.
play any drug addled games you wish. The south is a shithole
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.
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.
The 1% is doing great
So the blue states were only giving the money to the 1%? That redistribution of wealth sounds worse than I thought.
The left seems obsessed with the top 1%.
The top 1% are ruling the 99%!
Obviously you have no issue with that
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.
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.
Only Billionaires and morons vote red
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.
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.
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/
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.