What do the least educated states have in common, any guesses? (Rush Limbaugh, activist)

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by fat lou

A lot of black people?

Serious question, though: what is this obsession with people being "educated?" I wish that I didn't have 150,000 dollars in school loan debt. I should have just become a fireman, like everyone else from my neighborhood.

West Virginia and New Mexico don't have alot of Black people.

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by k350

On any list that is going to be ranked, you will always have a first and a last. However, as another poster once put it, it is like ranking billionaires; the poorest billionaire is still a billionaire.

In this case, this ranking system means nothing, show actual stats, for all we know, there could be less than a percent between first and last.

Here you go:

Pre-K - 12 Rankings
Measuring how well states are preparing students for college

[NSHL10]

Originally Posted by jojajn

From a highly educated state. Have a post graduate degree. Work as a professional and income high.

An internet millionaire too I suppose

[Ralph_N_1962]

You have relatives in all of them?

[Yo Ta]

Match up OP's list with this list of median income by state:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ries_by_income

[swilliamsny]

Originally Posted by jojajn

It appears that the lack of good education has made those red states more dependent on the federal teet since a decade ago.

These are the U.S. states most and least dependent on the federal government

Hey Ms. ‘I’m so educated’.... it’s teat, not teet.

Signed, an uneducated rube.

[michiganmoon]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...111/ajps.12409

Not only do Democrats win the high school drop out vote by a landslide, a Harvard study showed that the earlier a student drops out of high school the more likely he or she will vote Democrat. If a state raises its legal drop out age it hurts Democrat vote totals.

Democrats win the PhD vote, but they don’t want to throw too many stones either.

Obama won the high school drop out vote in 2008 by a 28 percent margin and in 2012 by a 29 percent margin. If getting less educated states to vote for you is dumb, isnt getting the least educated voters even worse?

[michiganmoon]

Originally Posted by jojajn

It appears that the lack of good education has made those red states more dependent on the federal teet since a decade ago.

These are the U.S. states most and least dependent on the federal government

Fact, blue voters are significantly more likely to be on welfare.

Would you support cutting back welfare and reducing taxes on the 1%?

Doing both of these would reduce the dependence that you speak of in this post.

[Minntoaz]

Originally Posted by JimRom

New York is fairly high on the list. You’d think they would have been “educated” enough not to kill grandparents by forcing Covid patients into nursing homes.

And Minnesota is above New York and well look where we’re at! Defunded police department, a burnt down police precinct, a looted city not one week but another time too! Education clearly means nothing (coming from someone who has a lot of education too).

[boneyard1962]

Originally Posted by jojajn

US states in order from least to most educated:

Mississippi
West Virginia
Louisiana
Arkansas
Alabama
Kentucky
South Carolina
Nevada
New Mexico
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Texas
Arizona
Indiana
Idaho
South Dakota
Georgia
Ohio
Missouri
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Michigan
Florida
Alaska
California
Kansas
Nebraska
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Montana
Maine
Delaware
Wyoming
Hawaii
Oregon
New York
Illinois
Utah
Minnesota
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Washington
Virginia
Connecticut
Vermont
Colorado
Maryland
Massachusetts

US States Ranked From Least to Most Educated

Looking at that list I see that many of the so-called most educated states got hammered by Covid 19, and hammered by BLM.

In my 58 years of life I have learned that most educated seldom equates to most functional or most successful.