::Major_Baker::
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Recnetly one of our posters, Aquapub, had these gems to offer to the DP community:
It was hidden in the 'Lexis Nexus is biased' thread, which was unsucessfully trying to justify the bias of a search engine.:3oops:
That aside, I thought it needed to be pulled out into a poll, and it's own thread.
So here it is:
Which group could, by all measureable means, be considered more educated: Liberals, or conservatives?
I offer this to the discussion--now this is just a start, and some interesting data--nothing concrete here about which group is more educated:
Here is a map of The Percent of Persons 25 Years and Over with Bachelor's Degree or Higher
Notice the bible belt has up to 15% fewer people with a college degree. Also notice the 'blue states', including NY, CA, etc are some of the highest 'bachelor degree or higher' rates.
And here's a map of Persons 16 to 19 Years Not Enrolled in School and Not a High School Graduate:Notice the hgiher percentage of kids not attending high school in the bible belt. Notice most of the 'red states', including Texas, Missippi, Georgia, Carolinas, and Alabama with the lower rates of high school attendance.
And lastly, a map of 2004 voting results.
This speaks for itself.
Clearly no concrete conclusion can be drawn from this data, and no studies that I know of have ever attempted to correlate education and voting patterns. some assumptions could be made here, but that is all. More than Aqua had to offer, that is for sure.
I'll leave you with this quote:
“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing” - Karl Rove
**Liberal books boms, conservative books do great. Liberals don't read. That's not hate, it's called reasoning.
**Conservative books beat the crap out of liberal ones because conservatives read and liberals are generally brainwashed, uneducated hysterics.
It was hidden in the 'Lexis Nexus is biased' thread, which was unsucessfully trying to justify the bias of a search engine.:3oops:
That aside, I thought it needed to be pulled out into a poll, and it's own thread.
So here it is:
Which group could, by all measureable means, be considered more educated: Liberals, or conservatives?
I offer this to the discussion--now this is just a start, and some interesting data--nothing concrete here about which group is more educated:
Here is a map of The Percent of Persons 25 Years and Over with Bachelor's Degree or Higher
Notice the bible belt has up to 15% fewer people with a college degree. Also notice the 'blue states', including NY, CA, etc are some of the highest 'bachelor degree or higher' rates.
And here's a map of Persons 16 to 19 Years Not Enrolled in School and Not a High School Graduate:Notice the hgiher percentage of kids not attending high school in the bible belt. Notice most of the 'red states', including Texas, Missippi, Georgia, Carolinas, and Alabama with the lower rates of high school attendance.
And lastly, a map of 2004 voting results.
This speaks for itself.
Clearly no concrete conclusion can be drawn from this data, and no studies that I know of have ever attempted to correlate education and voting patterns. some assumptions could be made here, but that is all. More than Aqua had to offer, that is for sure.
I'll leave you with this quote:
“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing” - Karl Rove