Minnesota was 10th smartest yet has as its...
It's all about the Collectivism.
I noticed that most of the “intelligent” states on the list have predominantly white populations and/or have minority populations that are heavily concentrated in urban areas (New York, for example).
“I’d rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.”
-—William F. Buckley, Jr.
I never knew how true that statement was until the last 6 years. We are being overrun by Ivy League-trained LEFTISTS: Kennedy School, Yale Law, Harvard Law, Columbia, Wilson School are all over-represented. Georgetown isn’t Ivy League but it creating almost as much havoc.