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I get kind of tired of reading threads and posts bashing places like the south for being uneducated racist white red states. it's ignorant stereotyping. so I have decided to combat that ignorant stereotyping with more ignorant stereotyping. this should boil the blood of the overly sensitive liberal types. let's take a look at some of the most educated states. VT, CT, MA, NJ, ME, and MN. these states all have something in common which I will get to in a minute. now how about the least educated states. AZ, MS, NM, NV, CA, LA, AL, and AK. now what do these states have in common? keep in mind, I said I was going to combat ignorant stereotyping with more ignorant stereotyping.
percentage of white people in the educated states.
VT-98%
CT-87%
MA-90%
NJ-80%
ME-98%
MN-88%
percentage of white people in the uneducated states.
AZ-59%
MS-62%
NM-50%
NV-65%
CA-58%
LA-65%
AL-72%
AK-69%
so what does this suggest? the whiter the state, the more educated the state. perhaps it's not uneducated racist whites that are bringing down the national test scores, it's the minorities. maybe mississippi should chuck a few minorities up to maine the next time they do the standardized testing. I bet that would drag down the test scores!
if this thread has taught us anything, which it hasn't, it's that an ignorant stereotype is an ignorant stereotype. perhaps those who consistently bash the south as being uneducated and racist will look at this thread and realize how stupid it sounds when the script has been flipped. racist white people don't bring down test scores, nor do minorities. stupid people bring down test scores.
Those educated whites are probably largely middle class and up and those uneducated are mostly low income poor people. States like Massachusetts may have large numbers of wealthy white people and Mississipi has large numbers of poor Black people. This can be shaped by economic opportunities in both states. I'd assume that Mississipi's unemployment is much higher than Massachusset's.
education can fit in wherever you feel like inserting a statistic. this was more a response to all the bashing of the "uneducated racist south."
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Where does class/income fit into this?
Those educated whites are probably largely middle class and up and those uneducated are mostly low income poor people. States like Massachusetts may have large numbers of wealthy white people and Mississipi has large numbers of poor Black people. This can be shaped by economic opportunities in both states. I'd assume that Mississipi's unemployment if much higher than Massachusset's.
liberals are also quite accustomed to blaming obama's poor numbers in certain states on lack of education. like I said, this was a sarcastic response to the 50,000 posts I read about how obama is losing the south to those ignorant racist rednecks. the stereotyping on both sides gets a little old, does it not? do you fail to see the irony in the thousands of posts about ignorant white voters in the south, and this one post that minorities bring down test scores, and I'm the one who brought up race. gotcha.
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Not really.
We're quite accustomed to everything equating to race with many white Americans.
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