states with higher IQ vote democrat

[arethinn]

This page about the correlation between a state's average IQ and whether Bush or Gore won the state in 2000 is interesting. Also on the page is a comparison of jobs lost and gained under various presidents, showing the Democrats come out on top. One can't just take those numbers at face value, though. Roosevelt tops the list with 5.3% gained, but there was this little thing called WWII responsible for most of that, and I'd hardly say it could be attributed to his being a Democrat. Likewise, Hoover is at the bottom with 9% lost, but he was president during the Depression, and there was a lot more going on than just his being a Republican, including stuff no one could have controlled no matter what party they were ("Dust Bowl", anyone?). Still, interesting to read.

I think really the correlation is more in the way that higher IQ's tend to get more involved in academia and perhaps broader, more liberal thinking, not "Republicans are dumb" exactly.

Comments

[andrewjthomas.livejournal.com]

republicans certainly aren't dumb, they're very shrewd actually
it's the people that vote republican who happen to make less than 100k a year that are dumb ;)

[soundwave106.livejournal.com]

I'm skeptical of studies like this that aren't Snopesed (yet, that I see)... the Democratic party certainly has a large contingent of dumb.

There are certain stereotypes that you can count on. In the smart Republicans, for instance, you have business people... dumb Republicans tend to be rural fundamentalist rednecks type. Smart Democrats tend to be, for instance, academia... dumb Democrats tend to be, say, your union types or minority lower-class (though some minority lower-class lean Republican)... even in "market segmentation" the world is complicated. :)

[arethinn]

dumb Republicans tend to be rural fundamentalist rednecks type.

*nod* Note that the South pretty much formed up the end of the list. Heh.