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Originally Posted by Savoir Faire
Red states have the worst graduation rates. Good schools, crappy students.
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By your own map, the states in the highest percentile are Utah, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Vermont. Six of which are solidly red states.
Oklahoma is on the same tier as Connecticut and New York is in the same rank as the poor, low-performing southern states, which doesn't really support the idea that rich areas always have superior schools.
I graduated from a tiny, typical, non-wealthy rural high school in a red state farming community. My graduating class was just under 40 and of the roughly 20 guys I graduated with, of those who didn't stay on the farm or take over the family business, every single one was a college graduate and several went on to get advanced degrees. My college friends, who also came from various small rural schools, also all have Bachelor's and Master's degrees.
It's irritating when the stereotype of the uneducated red state hick is constantly circulated by the left as a means to undermine the validity of Conservative opinions.