Gee Pliable....I used "America" instead of saying The United States of America - you really got me on that one...good thing you are here to set us on the right path..idiot...North America is the name of the continent, and the word America is also in the formal name of our country...so if I just refer to it as "America", try to follow along.....I suppose "America the Beautiful" pisses you off too, or is that song about Mexico as well?
I'd also like to point out that to Pliable, people with a degree are apparently working the counters at Best Buy or McDonalds...umm...ok..you really should get out more....and before you ask, do you really need a link to stats that show how people's income is directly related to their level of education?
Yes, generally people with a degree are smarter than your average auto mechanic. I'm certain there are a ton of exceptions, but I think as a general rule it's a safe statement.
Again, people misunderstand the blue vs red areas. Yes, downtown Minneaoplis is blue, but so is a very large area around the city - the area that most of the people who work in the city live in. The same is true in nearly every major city. Here in Cleveland the right shouts about the minority, inner city vote in Cleveland, when Cuyahoga county is mainly a non-minority county. We aren't talking about the cities themselves where the big buildings are - it's the suburbs around the big cities as well.
I'm still waiting for someone on the right (oops, not you Tastes, you are a liberal, remember?.. and I'm Batman) to explain what is good about a voting base that is less educated. This isn't about being 'elite', it's about raw numbers and statistics. You can talk about people living closer together being 'more easily brainwashed', but in fact the church-going vote was apparently far more effective in mobilizing people to vote as a collective group..so you tell me who was brainwashed?
Wasn't it Karl Rove who called higher education a "dangerous thing" for voters? I'm not making this stuff up.