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- 0rion16, on 02/04/2008, -111/+693Why are all of the right wing stomping grounds so dark?
- inactive, on 02/04/2008, -23/+383Are Americans stupid enough to think that graph contains any useful information?
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No definition who makes up the "population". - shadowblade989, on 02/04/2008, -26/+351All children left behind.
- LilBoyLuver, on 02/04/2008, -21/+141***** you Lincoln, we should have just let them go!
- blazes816, on 02/04/2008, -13/+118Yeah, I want my leader checking his data from a map on the internet he found on digg.
- shellacked, on 02/04/2008, -8/+84My personal favorite: http://yevda.com/misc/teeth-2004%20election.htm
Statistics for loss of natural teeth by state, color coded for how that state voted
I think it's hilarious. - baras, on 02/04/2008, -10/+84What is the source of this map? I'd like to know but I dugg it anyway. Utah looks nice anyway.
- Petri33, on 02/04/2008, -12/+84I wonder why the south Texas border is so dark.
- SheilaNoya, on 02/04/2008, -124/+194Is it any wonder why Republicans keep talking about doing away with the Department of Education? They need to keep people stupid enough to keep voting for them.
- tdp301, on 02/04/2008, -4/+72Where did you get that idea? Way to generalize to fit your own world view. Hate to bring in the pesky facts but...
2004 vote by income [exit poll]
Under $15,000 (8%) Bush/36% Kerry/63%
$15-30,000 (15%) Bush/42% Kerry/57%
As for education, Bush won the brackets 'HS grad', 'some college', and 'college graduate'. Kerry won 'No High School' and also won 'postgrad study'.
To say poor people vote overwhelmingly GOP is utterly ridiculous. Also, poor people is what is wrong with America? WTF? - inactive, on 02/04/2008, -19/+83Absolutely wrong. Education, obviously, is a good thing. Years of "schooling" doesn't necessarily have anything to do with that. At least, not the type of education that is desirable. Being taught a bunch of bs in government schools for 12 years is not as valuable as 4 years of actual education.
http://www.rit.edu/~cma8660/mirror/www.johntaylorg ... - coit, on 02/04/2008, -11/+72I wonder if this is just for the population over 18, or for all residents, including children who couldn't yet be expected to have 9 years of education?
lies, damn lies, and statistics. Pretty scary thought, nonetheless. - inactive, on 02/04/2008, -24/+85Why are college educated people more likely to vote Republican than those without a college degree?
Generalizations like this are dumb, especially since there's generally (oops) a counter-generalization readily available. - Scrappy1850, on 02/04/2008, -2/+54yes, I do... but it's of a different image.
- Shiftgood, on 02/04/2008, -22/+71the jesus.
- CkMaverick, on 02/04/2008, -6/+54What republicans? The only republican that I have heard call for doing away with the Department of Education is Ron Paul. The Department of Education is the reason why the education in this country is declining... The government should not be in charge of educating our children... That is prerequisite for indoctrination.
- QuickeningYak, on 02/04/2008, -9/+57...FEWER than nine years of education.
- Hawk2007, on 02/04/2008, -14/+59High number of mexican illegals there?
Oh wait, that's not a Diggland approved comment, so the real reason is, "That's where BOOOOSSSHHH is from!!!!" - Hawk2007, on 02/04/2008, -8/+51So digg immediately turns to the rednecks because they vote for republicans and overlook some of the darkest blue areas (i.e. inner cities) where kids leave school to do whatever. Inner cities don't vote republican yet I'd argue they're dumber than the back country woods areas of the country.
- CaffeinePowered, on 02/04/2008, -17/+58It all makes sense now...
- FredFredrickson, on 02/04/2008, -18/+59Because under-educated poor people are duped to vote for Republicans on "moral" issues. Go ahead and Digg me down, it won't make it any less true.
- Winoria, on 02/04/2008, -8/+46oh noes! I ben livin in dat dere dark spot my whole life!
- SeventhSon, on 02/04/2008, -5/+43Actually, it may be an improvement...
- swordedge, on 02/04/2008, -4/+40what year?
- HibikiRush, on 02/04/2008, -2/+38I personally believe that US Americans, there are some locations in the US that don't have that, such as South Africa... and Iraq... so we can build up our future.
- xOKxWhy, on 02/04/2008, -0/+33Who wouldn't take advice from a cat?
- skipdog172, on 02/04/2008, -0/+30It's always a wonder to see how long it takes for a post like this to appear. We talk about how much we hate "innacurate, slanted" news organizations and yet we are just giddy to dig up anything without ever checking references/accuracy.
- Jessdesign, on 02/04/2008, -6/+35anybody else noticed that they lumped a huge percentage for the highest level
- batmant, on 02/04/2008, -14/+42Only somewhere like Digg would "right-wingers" get called the evil rich and the uneducated poor by the same community.
"If you are not a liberal at age 20 you don't have a heart If you are not a conservative at age 40 you don't have a brain." - biggychong, on 02/04/2008, -1/+26New York, California, and Florida all have more people Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, so it kind of blows that theory out of the water. However, you're not an American so I can understand how you came to that conclusion.
- Klainmeister, on 02/04/2008, -12/+37Holy *****, i could move to the South and be a God!
- UbIwerks, on 02/04/2008, -18/+43Los Angeles?
- jsd8cc, on 02/04/2008, -1/+25Who knows? That's the problem. Though not as pretty, here's some real data from the Census Bureau:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/educa ... - wattznext, on 02/04/2008, -1/+24@ blazes816
With all these stupid Lolcat memes, you can do both. - xhazerdusx, on 02/04/2008, -1/+23At least Americans know the difference between "American's" and "Americans".
- 80hd, on 02/04/2008, -6/+28Blue States: Follow Jesus, but doesn't believe in Him
Red States: Believe in Jesus, but doesn't follow Him - drewowilson, on 02/04/2008, -2/+23right wing meaning conservative, not the right side of the map.
- inactive, on 02/04/2008, -3/+23woohoo Oregon! Oddly I still feel surrounded by dumb people maybe it's just me....
- dsmx, on 02/04/2008, -21/+41You just answered your own question in your question.
- BoneheadFarker, on 02/04/2008, -0/+19@Conwaysb0718
Of course...everyone can. It's when they start talking back that you have to worry... - davewashere, on 02/04/2008, -4/+22Seriously? Fewer than 9 years? So if you count kindergarten, they're dropping out before finishing 8th grade. That can't be right. I've never known anyone under the age of 65 who could claim they dropped out before high school. I live in one of the 0 - 9.3% counties, but I can't believe there would be places where 30% of the population hasn't attended a day of high school. Are children even allowed to drop out at that age?
- inactive, on 02/04/2008, -1/+19You do realize that local property taxes pay for education and not the federal government?
- inactive, on 02/04/2008, -22/+40Yeah! Like Nevada, Utah, Wyoming... Oh wait! The States that have the smallest percentages of the severely uneducated are Republican states!
- aliengoods, on 02/04/2008, -4/+22Sorry to thread hijack, but anyone have a larger resolution pic?
- Nougat, on 02/04/2008, -4/+21There must be swarms of illegals in Kentucky, then.
- skipdog172, on 02/04/2008, -3/+19And you are yet another example of ignorance! Wanting to get rid of the department of education does not mean "wanting to get rid of public schools". We simply do not need a federal department of education for public schools to exist. States can do this just fine. Most of the funding public schools receive come from property taxes, NOT the federal government. The power should lie in the states. It is sad that somebody seemingly intelligent such as yourself, would just assume that wanting to get rid of the department of education means wanting to get rid of schools. Ron Paul will likely lose because of people like you who glance at the cover and see "Leave the U.N., Eliminate Department of Education, Eliminate DEA, Eliminate Department of bla bla, etc" without ever putting in the full research of what the results would be.
Your assumption that if we eliminated the department of education, all of a sudden kids wouldn't be able to go to school and the "middle class will be divided" is purely laughable.
The main problem I have with comments like yours, is that you have this ludicrous believe that if Ron Paul were to win, he would have all of this power to single-handedly instantly change things like this. It is just ludicrous. Ron Paul's presidency would be about setting up transitional programs and working with Congress and the Senate to put the U.S. on the right track for the future. It wouldn't be this "carpet pulled out from under us" event that happens overnight.
I'm just so sick of this RP ignorance on so many of his issues. It is like many of you people are just searching for some off-the-wall-doomsday events that would all conspire if RP got elected. - treed, on 02/04/2008, -2/+18We here in California pay for public community colleges at the state level. We don't need a federal Department of Education.
- jeffsback2223, on 02/04/2008, -5/+20I doubt Bush could understand it.
- batmant, on 02/04/2008, -1/+16I'm going to assume that's a comment on the (apparent) uneducation of the south and the not the blacks.
- adooga, on 02/04/2008, -0/+13What do you have against black boarders?
I think it should include everyone, regardless of color or living situation. -
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