Posted on 11/27/2004 4:39:49 AM PST by MikefromOhio
I would think the red counties vs. the blue counties would show idiots living in the blue counties.
I would be surprised if the average IQ of any state was much more or less than 100.
Having lived in the NE and the South, there is a big difference in behavior. And, what "Northerners" see as "normal", Southerners would consider rude and snobby. Part of it is what you are used to. I think generally Southerners are much more outgoing and congenial to strangers, and will readily treat folks "like family". Something simple like smiling and waving, with a verbal greeting ('morning, good afternoon, etc), is a given, whereas you are not going to see that much in the NE, where "minding one's own business" extends beyond the home. There was a big enough difference for me to remark to myself, after a few months in SC, that the phrase "Southern hospitality", was quite true.
The greatest amount of spending-per capita-in terms of education is done in Washington D.C., which also happens to have some of the worst-performing schools in the nation.
The intellectual "disparity" between the "red" and "blue" states-which is another fictitious creation that needs to be debunked-isn't even worth commenting upon.
The final Baltimore Sun polls had Kerry up 17 points in MD....but (in fine print near the bottom of the article).. if you only counted white voters, Bush wins by 5 points
Though, I must defer-in this one instance-to the expert in matters of measuring intelligence quotient, Cacique.
It cannot be said enough. Nationwide, as people's education level increases, they are more likely to vote Republican, through the master's degree level. People with Ph.D's make a sharp turn to the left, however. I suspect that Ph.D's are statists who want to preserve the status quo which favors paper crendentials over experience and results. (Teachers should make less than truck drivers.)
Well, just damn! My Q is about 122 and I voted for Bush. And I was bred and born in Texas and have been a Virginian for about 20 years.... go figure.
Good point, PhD's are generally professional students, graduate degree types are generally out working.
Masachusetts gave us a Murderer and drunk (Kennedy), a war criminal and liar (Kerry) and a Queer(Barney Frank) and they are smarter?? I would rather be stupid.
What Mass. Genius figured the cost of the Big Dig?
My state Maryland came out good on the chart, has anyone ever visited the Counties where Kerry won?/ Believe me they are filed with affirmative action employees that got work thru lowered standards.
Even my kids think the man in the streets interviews are a hoot. They can't believe people can be so ill-informed.
I think it's more about values than I.Q. Those of us who have taken the time and effort to understand history and understand today's politics know that socialism is tyranny. We don't want to go there. Most blue people wouldn't either if they took sometime out their self-centered lives and really examined what is going on.
You are getting so short you'll have to step up on a ladder to look down on a dime!
What what was Kerry's IQ reported as?
Kerry did not release his IQ or SAT scores but Bush's SAT's show he is well above average (MBA from Harvard, fighter pilot, etc.), probably why Kerry has not releaed either scores.
And believe me, I have already bought the ladder!!! :)
Thanks for the tip on posting tables.
Campaign expenditures, hundreds of millions; Kerry's shock, priceless.
All I know is that Kerry's undergrad grades were too low to get him into law school. I had also heard his SAT scores were lower than Bush's, but I don't remember the numbers.
Also, re driving in south vs. north. There is a difference between Boston and the regions around Boston. I used to drive into Boston on a regular basis from a neighboring state, and I would find the drivers becoming crazier and crazier the closer one got to route 128 and Boston in general.
Then I taught in South Carolina for a while. Things are definitely slower and more mellow in the south. And if there you wanted to make a left turn, with a long line of traffic approaching you and no lights or break in sight, the southerners would actually stop and let you go. That is unheard of in the north. People from Massachusetts just pull out into the middle of the road so that the oncoming traffic has to stop.
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