States Ranked From Smartest to Dumbest

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[FreedomCalls]

What RACIST garbage. There is an almost direct correlation between this list and the "whiteness' of each state. Notice the states with the largest percentage of Black and Hispanics are at the bottom of the list! Go ahead and find a list that states the percentage of "whites" in each state and see how it stacks up. I've always said that liberals are the most racist people around -- far more so than conservatives -- and this is another item to support that. They are claiming that "white" equals "smart" and "black" and "Hispanic" = dumb!

[FreedomCalls]

They're just dressing up some data to "prove" one of their most cherished premises: the Kerry states are smarter than the Bush states, therefore they are the most qualified to lead the country.

They are trying to prove that predominately white states are smarter than predominately black or Hispanic states. It's more of the left's hidden racism coming out. They do not like blacks or Hispanics and would prefer to live in their lilly-white Connecticuts and Vermonts than New Mexico and Mississippi with all of "them." It makes me sick. I can't understand why an African-American would ever vote Democrat.

[anniegetyourgun]

I know that, but the District is often listed in these published surveys. Such as this one:

Here are all the states' rankings for graduate degree holders: 1. Washington, D.C.: 23.6 percent 2. Massachusetts: 14.5 percent 3. Maryland: 14.1 percent 4. Connecticut: 13.7 percent 5. Virginia: 12.9 percent 6. New York: 12.6 percent 7. Vermont: 12.3 percent 8. Colorado: 11.5 percent 8. New Jersey: 11.5 percent 10. New Mexico: 11.0 percent 11. Illinois: 10.6 percent 12. New Hampshire: 10.5 percent 13. Washington: 10.1 percent 13. California: 10.1 percent 15. Rhode Island: 9.9 percent 16. Alaska: 9.8 percent 17. Oregon: 9.5 percent 18. Minnesota: 9.3 percent 19. Delaware: 9.2 percent 20. Kansas: 8.9 percent 20: Missouri: 8.9 percent 20. Pennsylvania: 8.9 percent 23. Hawaii: 8.8 percent 24. Florida: 8.5 percent 25. Michigan: 8.3 percent 26. Arizona: 8.2 percent 27. Texas: 8.0 percent 28. Georgia: 7.9 percent 28. Utah: 7.9 percent 30. Maine: 7.8 percent 31. North Carolina: 7.7 percent 31. South Carolina: 7.7 percent 31. Indiana: 7.7 percent 34. Ohio: 7.6 percent 35. Montana: 7.5 percent 35. Kentucky: 7.5 percent 35. Alabama: 7.5 percent 38. Nebraska: 7.4 percent 39. Wisconsin: 7.2 percent 39. Wyoming: 7.2 percent 41: Idaho: 7.1 percent 42. Tennessee: 7.1 percent 43. Louisiana: 6.7 percent 43. North Dakota: 6.7 percent 45. West Virginia: 6.6 percent 46. Oklahoma: 6.5 percent 46. Arkansas: 6.5 percent 48. Iowa: 6.3 percent 49. South Dakota: 6.1 percent 50. Nevada: 5.9 percent 51: Mississippi: 5.8 percent

[gitmo]

Massachusetts is a fair-sized city.

[gitmo]

Funny that test scores don't enter into the equation at all.

[WKB]

color me
RED DUMB FAT AND HAPPY

[onyx]

RED?
As in NECK, I hope?

[NYCVirago]

Have you seen the so-called IQ chart floating around the internet, showing how smart the blue states are as opposed to the red states? It's obviously an urban legend, but several many so-called "smart" Democrats think it's real!

[Still Thinking]

But it's still fallacious to try to measure "smart" by implication from other variables. If you want to measure smart, measure smart. If you want to measure class size, say so in the title of your survey.

[smcmike]

Oh, I agree. This survey is very stupid. Smarts should not be measured by these variables. But class size does matter, despite what some might say.

[petercooper]

Most liberal "intellectuals" are simply educated beyond their intelligence.

[OKIEDOC]

I have traveled extensively in Mass and find that most of the people are very nice. I enjoyed my time in your state and realize that not all are elitist snobs. Sometimes we out in the heartland forget that President Bush received millions of votes in those blue states. Yes your right to stay and work for Common Sense change in the way Republicans are viewed.
My son teaches at Brown university and loves the Boston area. I have to remind him from time to time that even with his elitist attitude he is still from lowly Oklahoma.

Thanks for your reply, we as all conservative thinking Americans have a tough battle on our hands for many years to come.

[rdcorso]

They forgot to say that the democratic voters in the red states are the people who bring the score down.The fact is that minority students dropout, fail, shoot each other , and fight at a higher rate and also vote for the democrats 90% of the time.If they were removed and added to blue states the blues would all be at the bottom.

[slowhandluke]

I know it's not a unique story, but it is unique enough to be an exception to the rule. It's a simple numbers game, the three kids of October Sky were vastly outnumbered by their Appalachian counterparts.

What we need is to spend less time at Friday night football (and basketball, baseball, cheerleading, etc.) and spend more time on building solid academic foundations (at, mind you, the local level). This will lead our youth to solving an ever increasing array of complex problems that face the nation and the world.

Point of logic - it doesn't have to be the rule, as it's a true story that's an exception to and disproof of your rule:"Just goes to show, no bucks, no Buck Rogers."

The point I was making was that $$ was NOT the limiting factor.

Some teacher cared and some parent helped. If, as in the movie, the parent didn't think rockets were a reasonable effort, the parent at least instilled a work & responsibility ethic.

There's another thread tonight, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1273978/posts that points out that even with close $8000/kid, the Flint MI schools can't do much if the kids and parents don't care.

[Still Thinking]

Sure, I'll accept that, especially since you seem to have first hand experience.

[Clemenza]

New York and New Jersey both have large numbers of Blacks and Hispanics.

[FreedomCalls]

Look at this:

http://circ.rupri.org/maparchive/SIDS/african%20american.jpg

[MissouriConservative]

Here is the average IQ of states......

104 IQ:
New Hampshire - Kerry

103 IQ
Oregon - Kerry
Massachusetts - Kerry
Wisconsin - Kerry


102 IQ
Colorado - Bush
Connecticut - Kerry
Illinois - Kerry
Iowa - Bush
Kansas - Bush
Minnesota - Kerry
Montana - Bush
Nebraska - Bush
North Dakota - Bush
Oklahoma - Bush
Vermont - Kerry
Washington - Kerry


101 IQ
Alaska - Bush
Maryland - Kerry
Michigan - Kerry
Missouri - Bush
New York - Kerry
Ohio - Bush
Utah - Bush
Wyoming - Bush


100 IQ
Arizona - Bush
California - Kerry
Idaho - Bush
Maine - Kerry
Nevada - Bush
New Jersey - Kerry
Pennsylvania - Kerry
Rhode Island - Kerry
South Dakota - Bush
Virginia - Bush
West Virginia - Bush


99 IQ
Delaware - Kerry
Hawaii - Kerry
Indiana - Bush


98 IQ
Florida - Bush
Arkansas - Bush


97 IQ
Alabama - Bush
Georgia - Bush
Kentucky - Bush
Louisiana - Bush
North Carolina - Bush
Tennessee - Bush
Texas - Bush


96 IQ
New Mexico - Bush


95 IQ
District of Columbia - Kerry


94 IQ
Mississippi - Bush
South Carolina - Bush


These IQ scores are taken from ACT & SAT scores and adjusted downwards 10 points to get an average.

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[Clemenza]

The counties that show the largest percentages of African Americans are also the counties with the largest populations in the two states in question.

[FreedomCalls]

I'd have to do an Excel spread sheet to see exactly what the correlation is, but it is most certainly a positive number. It is not flat.

Note that I'm not agreeing with the results of the study -- I'm saying the methodology of the study is faulty.