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[Texas:]Brownsville, McAllen rank among America's least intelligent cities
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| 12/06/2010
Posted on 12/07/2010 1:08:04 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Brownsville and McAllen are among America's least intelligent cities, according to a survey released late last week.
A survey by the website portfolio.com, ranked the two Rio Grande Valley cities among America's dumbest.
Using new data released by the U.S. Census bureau, the website look at the average level of higher education obtained by the residents in 200 cities or metropolitan statistical areas.
Education levels were matched to income.
Boulder, Colorado ranked number 1 in the USA in terms of intelligence while Modesto, California ranked number 200.
Brownsville ranked 198 out of 200 while McAllen-Edinburg ranked 199 out of 200.
Laredo, another Texas border community, ranked (194 not)104 out of 200.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; brownsville; immigration; mcallen
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Laredo, another Texas border community, ranked (194) out of 200.
To: SwinneySwitch
Explains why those cities are resisting a border fence.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:08:59 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Question: If you deport all the Mexicans, would that improve things?
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:10:42 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
To: SwinneySwitch
It’s not a matter of intelligence.
It is a matter of education.
Most of these residents were “intelligent “ enough to get the fudge out of Mexico.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:12:10 PM PST
by
mylife
(Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
To: SwinneySwitch
Education levels do not have anything to do with intelligence.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:12:38 PM PST
by
MeganC
(January 20, 2013)
To: SwinneySwitch
To: SwinneySwitch
And all of those well educated Ivy League types are doing such a wonderful job running the country.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:12:50 PM PST
by
Drill Thrawl
(TSA - You don't get on 'til we get off)
To: SwinneySwitch
Too bad cities aren’t ranked in order of common sense. Boulder would be just about dead last in that regard.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:12:55 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:15:04 PM PST
by
Vasilli22
To: Responsibility2nd
Based on your comment, I thought I ended up at DU. Leave the racism to the professionals please.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:15:41 PM PST
by
Drill Thrawl
(TSA - You don't get on 'til we get off)
To: SwinneySwitch
Bogus report.
I’ve seen dumber people in San Francisco.
You’re only as stupid as the part of the country you are standing in anyway.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:15:54 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Mexicans arent stupid.
They are oppressed.
Our problem is that we dont crack down on Mexican Government corruption, and that we allow dems to tug on folks heart strings to expand corruption here.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:16:05 PM PST
by
mylife
(Opinions ~ $1 Half Baked ~ 50c)
To: SwinneySwitch
This just says they were smart enough to avoid the University Re-Education compounds...
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:16:46 PM PST
by
95B30
( The Professional Left: "Their morals are crooked, their logic is flawed, their honor is stolen)
To: SwinneySwitch
...average level of higher education obtained by the residents in 200 cities or metropolitan statistical areas... I do not consider "Level of Higher Education Obtained" to be a fair measure of intelligence.
Some of the biggest nit-wits I have ever known have PhD after their names... ...and the nit-wit in chief went to law school.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:17:19 PM PST
by
WayneS
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: SwinneySwitch
Using new data released by the U.S. Census bureau, the website look at the average level of higher education obtained by the residents in 200 cities or metropolitan statistical areas. Higher education = intelligence.
Really?
I'll present the education credentials of most of the members of the president's administration (and the president himself) as proof to the contrary.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:17:28 PM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Education and intelligence are not the same thing.
SnakeDoc
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:17:49 PM PST
by
SnakeDoctor
("They made it evident to every man [...] that human beings are many, but men are few." -- Herodotus)
To: fieldmarshaldj
...don’t forget San Francisco and Seattle.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:18:46 PM PST
by
WayneS
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: MeganC
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:20:19 PM PST
by
Zarro
(Hands off Our Junk!)
To: SwinneySwitch
Which city is 200? Washington DC?
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:23:36 PM PST
by
wilco200
(11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
To: SwinneySwitch
Education and Intelligence aren’t the same thing. I’ve known a lot of people who didn’t have a lot of formal education but were very intelligent. I’ve also met some very educated people who are as dumb as a box of rocks.
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posted on
12/07/2010 1:23:47 PM PST
by
mbynack
(Retired USAF SMSgt)
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