Charles at LGF points to some data from a Gallup survey of voting.
The survey is here: How Americans Voted and contains this interesting comparison of formal education and voting changes between 2000 and 2004:
Another meme regarding this is that the people from rural areas are somehow less intelligent than people from urban areas. I would disagree. Jen and I moved out here and with city life, you are in a relatively high-stress environment but the things that get dropped in your lap are generally known and there are support systems for dealing with them. Country life introduces a large randomness to this and also increases the variety of things to deal with. You need to be more resourceful and intelligent to be able to successfully deal with these.
| Bush, 2000 % | Bush, 2004 % | Change | |
| Postgraduate education | 43 | 47 | +4 |
| College graduate (no postgrad) | 55 | 58 | +3 |
| Some college | 53 | 56 | +3 |
| High school or less education | 45 | 46 | +1 |
Interesting! Great state you are in. My son in law lives in Olympia and works for a huge company, it has slipped me mind, out there in Seattle!