Monday, September 29, 2008

Are Blue States Better Educated than Red States?

I don't usually get involved in political discussions - a policy I plan to continue following in the future.  A blog post that I read promoting the Democrat candidate for President alleges that people in the "fly-over states" are uneducated and therefore resentful and somehow incapable of appreciating the political views of vastly more educated opponents.  Based on what I could find on Internet, there may be some merit to the argument that the blue states have a higher percentage of college graduates than the red states. But not significantly so.  I think it would be inaccurate to say that conservative political views stem from a lack of education.


 Pop 25+ % Bachelors
California  21,990 29.8%
Connecticut  2,232 33.5%
Delaware  531 28.1%
District of Columbia  404 46.4%
Hawaii  796 27.0%
Illinois  8,031 28.1%
Maine  882 23.7%
Maryland  3,545 37.2%
Massachusetts  4,415 37.6%
Michigan  6,330 23.3%
Minnesota  3,323 32.7%
New Hampshire  865 34.0%
New Jersey  5,740 33.4%
New York  12,636 29.6%
Oregon  2,315 26.4%
Pennsylvania  8,277 24.8%
Rhode Island  713 27.6%
Vermont  423 31.3%
Washington  3,884 28.8%
Wisconsin  3,585 24.1%
Subtotal  90,917   29.46%
Alabama  2,948 22.7%
Alaska  383 24.0%
Arizona  3,441 26.0%
Arkansas  1,743 17.4%
Colorado  2,894 36.0%
Florida  11,266 25.8%
Georgia  5,468 25.0%
Idaho  795 22.5%
Indiana  3,972 22.2%
Iowa  1,891 24.6%
Kansas  1,693 31.0%
Kentucky  2,673 21.3%
Louisiana  2,763 23.0%
Mississippi  1,742 19.3%
Missouri  3,637 26.6%
Montana  600 24.9%
Nebraska  1,077 26.8%
Nevada  1,356 21.2%
New Mexico  1,154 23.7%
North Carolina  5,409 23.8%
North Dakota  420 25.2%
Ohio  7,304 25.0%
Oklahoma  2,214 24.3%
South Carolina  2,591 22.3%
South Dakota  465 23.9%
Tennessee  3,700 23.5%
Texas  13,231 24.7%
Utah  1,272 28.4%
Virginia  4,623 34.2%
West Virginia  1,222 15.3%
Wyoming  321 20.7%
Subtotal  94,268   25.05%









Source: http://www.epodunk.com/top10/collegeDiploma/index.html

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Perhaps non-college graduates are incapable of understanding the 'beauty' that is Marxism?

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