Something for the lurking Freepers to enjoy

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Very Telling. No wonder right wingers have such disdain for education.

[codjh9]

1. GAWD that's a great graphic. Very telling. Not surprising at all. However, it's also scary

to me how many college-educated whackjob conservatives there are, in places like say, Dallas (I've lived in the area twice :^p

[Fantastic Anarchist]

14. Dallas voted Blue ...

By a very large margin. Only Austin voted by a wider margin for Obama. Austin, El Paso, Houston, Fort Worth, and San Antonio all went blue. It's not Texas that's crazy, it's rural Texas that is.

Edit to add Austin to the list.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

16. That's true of many states, even Blue states

have their rural pockets...Texas just has so much more rural territory.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

18. Indeed, it does.

I'll take Dallas ... I'm a city boy.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

20. I grew up in Brooklyn, NY

My family moved from NYC almost 50 years ago...but I am still a city girl.

[codjh9]

17. OK, OK - even having lived something like 45 years of my life in TX, that surprises me, especially

Houston & D/FW. HOWEVER - it's not just rural. When I was last living in D/FW, not that long ago, the suburban counties, such as Collin & several others, voted humongously Republican, like 80-20.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

19. That's Plano mostly ...

Now Frisco (what used to be the boondocks), Wylie, Allen. But, I think the closer suburbs, Richardson, Addison, Carrollton, et al, went blue. Dallas county suburbs, not the Collin County suburbs such as Plano (Heroin capital of the world - rich kids getting smacked out).

I hear ya, but you'd be surprised.

[SDjack]

2. Help for RWers. If you live in a state that is in the right column of the table, and its

name is printed in RED letters, you may be too ignorant to vote for your own and our Nation's best interests.

[infidel dog]

3. Goddamnit, boy, them pointy-head intellectuals

are just too high and mighty to vote the way their bosses tell 'em to!

[Dalai_1]

4. great graphic

really gets it into perspective,doesn't it?

[CuriousAboutPolls]

5. Rick Santorum

"The smart people are never going to be on our side."

[MyOwnPeace]

6. And that's

why we ran him out of Pennsylvania!!!

[LeftinOH]

7. "Most college education" vs. "Least college education" would be a

a better title. "Best" and "Worst" equates intelligence with college attendance. I just feel obligated to bring this up. Some of the stupidest people I ever met were in college; some very sharp people never attended college.

[Coyotl]

9. Agreed. Plus the worst college in Ma might be better than the best college in another state.

[synapticwave]

10. thank you

thought the same thing.

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. A wise point. Thank you.

[japple]

8. Well, as we say here in Georgia: "thank god for Mississippi!"

We've still got a lot of work to do in this state to raise the consiousness of some of these bible thumpers. Sorry to have offended any DU Mississippians. I love MS and except for the fact that there aren't any bathrooms at the rest stops, it's a beautiful state and TUPELO rocks!

[ReRe]

11. Very Telling Indeed...

What we really need to do is figure out how to get those back-woods rural folks educated.
Anyone who can do that earns a Nobel Peace Prize for sure. I think POB is trying to do that by
urging to get free internet access to the rural areas? Yeah, we need some serious nation-building right here at home. My state is one the worst educated. Local newspaper even had a newspaper article front page below the fold that more or less bragged about it before the election. It turned my stomach.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

13. Most of the Worst Educated States ...

... also suck off the Government teat more than they give back.

Talk about "fiscal responsibility."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/states-federal-taxes-spending-charts-maps

[Jack Rabbit]

15. he Freepers will be proud of that. They're anti-intellectual, after all.

[graywarrior]

21. Must share!

[cui bono]

22. So basically we have a bunch of snobs picking our president.

As Santorum would put it.

[Brother Buzz]

23. This map might help a bit

Map of US 2012 Presidential Election Results versus Location of Top-Ranked US Universities

[Doodler71]

24. Some People will hold on

To irrational beliefs regardless of evidence to the contrary. They hold on so desperately that they will create innumerable paradoxes, but will still fail to see facts or let go of those deeply rooted false beliefs. It is one of the reasons why organized religion is able to control their followers.

Sometimes, by showing, not telling, you are able to make in-roads. That is why the "kill them with kindness" sometimes works. Sometimes the show of force works too, though, that is diametrically opposed to most liberal beliefs.

In other words we can just be who we are and some people will see we are not evil and start to let go of their rigid beliefs.

Republicans on the other hand would beat you into submission & that is my rigid belief.