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I'm college educated in one of those "dumb" states and i will never understand the left's fetish with university. It was just a box to check and i fail to see why it gives you such a sense of superiority...
I dont get it either. I've got some college under my belt but no degree. But I do have a lot of hands on training and 35 years of practical experience.
I remember atime when a colleague and I were working a job doing a main sewage line in a small community. State regs had "engineers" out there overseeing the job.
One of them was this gal who was over our shoulders for every connection it seemed. She was nice enough but got seriously irritating. One day she was at ditches edge prattling on about specific numbers on a specific angle proportionate to the paralegal on level with the ding a ling. You know, classroom talk.
My partner had enough and stood up and told her "Miss, we dont need a rocket scientist to tell us that $h!+ flows downhill." Her jaw dropped and the look on her face was priceless.
As I've said, education in and of itself is a fine thing. But in the end a degree is just that. A degrees. A piece of paper. Which is not a license for a pompous attitude. Us working folk are hardly inferior in any way to college clowns.
Especially these days with these college types graduating with degrees in subjects with zero practical application. Liberal arts? The things that fall under that blanket are about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
And this is the "higher education" the OP is waving around like a battle standard. I see my state is way down the list. I reckon we're a bunch if deplorables here. But the Dems have tak5over here via Vegas and Reno. And are ruining the state I have called home my whole life
With their "educated" attitudes. They can keep it.
The low educated are easily swayed to vote against their own self interest.
However, you did correctly identify the highly educated states as being Democratic. Congrats!
I'm low educated and I voted against my self-interest. I have health insurance and paid for my daughter's education. I was 28 and married before I had a child and my daughter will do the same. I've always worked too much and made to much money to do anything other than pay in. Hopefully, I live long enough to get some SS. I dislike it when anyone uses that self-interest argument. Liberals vote their values and so do conservatives even if it doesn't benefit them directly.
Pot meet kettle. Just look at what is happening in democrat strongholds lately. You must have been sleeping while all the rioting/looting/vandalizing was going on. You also didn't notice that the dems running those places have allowed those lowlifes to keep rioting/looting/vandalizing even if it put their local PD at risk.
From reading your posts, it's obvious that you don't fully research new stories. You stick to your left leaning media and take it as gospel.
I've talked with people with advanced degrees and that's how they, like you, get their news. When they bring up a news story that they saw from their favorite left leaning media source, I will point out things that were left out of the story. It never fails---they are very surprised when they hear the whole story.
Too many educated liberals aren't even aware that today's democrats aren't their grandfather's (or their father's) democrats. They are oblivious as to how far to the left the dems have moved. So, like automatons they vote for anybody or anything with a "D" next to their name. That's a shame. If they weren't so willfully ignorant, they just might find that the RINO on the ballot is more in line with their beliefs than the Blue Dog democrat.
Democrats have been moving to the right for past decades and more. I doubt you know what you’re talking about other than your own self-aggrandizement.
Don't you think education is important for a civilized first world country?
Without education we wouldn't have medical treatment, vaccines, technology, safe infrastructure, etc... instead, we would have superstition and ignorance.
The rich and the corporations are far smarter than that.
For example, they've managed to get millions of laborers to work hard for low wages, no benefits and no rights or protections and got YOU to actually defend the practice by making it a racial issue.
What most of the foes of free enterprise fail to recognize is that the capital they demonize is no longer under the direct control of a group of supposed "idle wealthy"; it is managed by philanthropies and other institutions, and the ownership becomes more dispersed with the passage of each generation.
I myself had a hand in the management of a small portion ($2 million -- probably doubled since then) of this wealth, as the business manager of a non-profit, non-sectarian cemetery. It provided paychecks (admittedly, not very generous) for two full-time employees, and several students during the summer -- not exactly the "exploitation" the perpetual malcontents seek to whine about.
This scenario is replicated continuously -- in thousands of communities, and by tens of thousands of enterprises, profit-seeking and non-profit alike.
Some of the most highly educated people I have ever met and worked with, were also some of the biggest idiots I have ever met.
+1for that and Amen. If I have a choice twixt a PhD and a guy with callouses on his hands and dirt under his nails as a partner to get something done I'll take door number 2 thank you.
Well have it done before the twidget gets done thinking about it. Hell well be rolled out and half way done before he gets done thinking about how to make his coffee.
Were drinking ours while we're working and took care of that with a can of Folgers some water and filled up while it was making.
If Republicans should feel bad for winning the least educated states, should Democrats feel bad almost always winning the high school drop out vote? Obama won the high school drop out vote by 28% against McCain and then by 29% against Romney.
A Harvard study found that the earlier someone dropped out of high school the more likely they were to be a consistent Democrat.
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Originally Posted by jonbenson
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
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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
Confederate states consistently underfunded public schools for blacks
2 points:
(1) The two best former Confederate states on that list have had the most Yankee immigration.
(2) Although it was once true that black schools were severely underfunded it hasn't been that way for decades. Black majority schools actually get more funding per pupil than white majority schools. That flipped in the early 1990s and had been relatively cut up well before that.
Educational attainment has nothing to do with intelligence. I know many tradesman, farmers, etc., who are far brighter than many college grads. The article is just another steaming pile of leftist drivel. And, no, I am not anti-education. But to act like some fluff degree like Liberal Arts somehow makes someone better than a HS graduate is ridiculous.
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
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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
Confederate states consistently underfunded public schools for blacks
Curious as to why you cut it off at 20/30 instead of 25/25.
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Originally Posted by L8Gr8Apost8
I'm low educated and I voted against my self-interest. I have health insurance and paid for my daughter's education. I was 28 and married before I had a child and my daughter will do the same. I've always worked too much and made to much money to do anything other than pay in. Hopefully, I live long enough to get some SS. I dislike it when anyone uses that self-interest argument. Liberals vote their values and so do conservatives even if it doesn't benefit them directly.
I agree with your last point, but re: the bold-"never say never". My friends and I with grown kids have that as a mantra. You don't know what your kids will do (or not).
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