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You have a better chance of seeing a Liberal at a NASCAR race that you do at seeing a conservative as a Valedictorian at (insert name of any college)
I dunno, if you consider tea partiers as conservatives they aren't all that different from the rest of the country. I, for instance, have two degrees......and am a southern redneck in good standing.
uhh, not really. It's a fairly well known fact that most (college aged) students have liberal views. It's once they mature and start seeing for themselves the wasteful spending of the money extracted from their paychecks that their eyes are opened to conservative beliefs.
Nice try though.
College students are liberal until they start paying income taxes.
I think that is not so much that liberals are more educated, but rather that those who are well educated tend to be more liberal in their thinking. . . . .a subtle but important difference.
I think that is not so much that liberals are more educated, but rather that those who are well educated tend to be more liberal in their thinking. . . . .a subtle but important difference.
What is your definition of "well educated"? What if the formal education is in the arts vs. one in the sciences?
I have an undergrad degree in Computer Information System and Quantitative Analysis and an MBA both from accredited universities. I've been called a 'wing nut' on this site based on some of my conservative comments. My close family members who have degrees in CIS, nursing, accounting and finance all have the same conservative leanings as me. I have to get out to friends with degrees in education before I can find someone with left leaning tendencies.
Fewer jobs in conservative areas require advanced degrees, thus a smaller percentage of people in red states need to go to college. That doesn't mean that these people aren't intelligent. I have a college degree and my wife has a high school diploma, but she's definitely more intelligent than me.
There's a difference between education and intelligence.
If you look at metropolitan areas that have high percentages of people who hold a college degree, you will see that these regions are liberal.
Umm 48% of Detroit is functionally illiterate, what do you think?
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