Quote (thundercock @ 17 Dec 2019 21:39)
Each state has it's own issues. That's why I said blue states in general. Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, Vermont, and Virginia are all in the top 10 for education. Florida and New Hampshire are as well (purple states). The bottom 10 are primarily red states plus New Mexico. If there was no pattern, you'd expect Blue, Red, and Purple states to be distributed evenly.
CA is definitely an interesting case and the issues it has are pretty systemic. There are a lot of great things about the state and a lot of bad things. We've had Republican and Democrat governors for decades and they can never work quick enough to fix the issues. Ultimately, a lot of people want to live here due to the job markets and weather. That's going to attract a lot of undesirables as well as a lot of rich folk. It's going to put far more pressure on infrastructure as well.
Florida is in the top 10 for education? By which criterion? According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_educational_attainment ,
it ranks 31st by percentage of holders of a college degree.
In general, both colleges/universities and knowledge-based jobs tend to be created in and around urban centers. Since the two parties are heavily polarized along the urban/rural divide, it's no surprise that the states of the more urban party are the more educated ones.
And yes, the geographic divide between the parties came before the big educational divide. The latter had only become dramatic in recent years anyway.
You're right, however, about California being a pretty unique case. The state is just too huge und diverse to be generalized.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Dec 17 2019 03:35pm
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