Well Maryland is not lilly white and is the number one state in education in the country. I still won’t send my kids to public school because I want them in Catholic School but Maryland does have incredible public schools.
Maryland does at first seem to be an outlier... but after looking at the stats there is one thing VERY different about Maryland.
6% Asian.
I mentioned IQ test and the differences between races in a previous post. Asians score the highest on average on IQ tests. So a state with a high percentage of Asians would have an edge in that regards.
New Jersey is somewhat of an outlier too, but again if you look at the stats, New Jersey is 9% Asian.
It is 27% black, compared to Mississippi being 40% black. Also, aren’t Maryland’s blacks segregated in large cities?