Posted on 02/01/2016 5:50:59 AM PST by Citizen Zed
From this little glimpse, you can see that Iowa's 1% slice of the broader U.S. electorate is a tad older, a fair amount whiter, slightly more well-off, and a little less educated than the nation.
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Why do you say this? Is it because of a 3% difference between national and IA college level percentages?
Seems to me if anything, the big disparity between IA and other US National Averages is in the number of white people and the inordinately small percentage of blacks and inordinately large percentage of Hispanics.
For me, that’s not really a takeaway conclusion of “uneducated.”
Mistake....also inordinately small percentage of Hispanics. My bad.
It is not older according to the chart. Across all ages, it is .1 percent younger.
Not so many years ago, Iowa had the highest literacy rate in the nation. We ought not confuse “educated” with “having a post-secondary degree”.
We worried about this in the 70's and 80's when McDonalds and K-Mart and all the other chains were taking over the Mom and Pops. We used to worry that the big three TV stations were turning all Americans into mindless, sex-crazed consumers.
These stats suggest we were right to worry.
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