The Intelligence of the American Voter
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:
| | 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 |
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.
Posted by DaveH at November 7, 2004 12:27 PM