[Citizen Zed]

Stupid uneducated white Iowa.

[Gaffer]

Why do you say this? Is it because of a 3% difference between national and IA college level percentages?

Seems to me if anything, the big disparity between IA and other US National Averages is in the number of white people and the inordinately small percentage of blacks and inordinately large percentage of Hispanics.

For me, that’s not really a takeaway conclusion of “uneducated.”

[ecomcon]

It is not older according to the chart. Across all ages, it is .1 percent younger.

[Dr. Sivana]

Not so many years ago, Iowa had the highest literacy rate in the nation. We ought not confuse “educated” with “having a post-secondary degree”.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The interesting takeaway to me is that except for a couple of statistics Iowa is about the same as the US as a whole, i.e. every state is becoming quite similar.

We worried about this in the 70's and 80's when McDonalds and K-Mart and all the other chains were taking over the Mom and Pops. We used to worry that the big three TV stations were turning all Americans into mindless, sex-crazed consumers.

These stats suggest we were right to worry.