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"I love the poorly educated" (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The maps were identical in 2020 (following a republican administration):

Oklahoma 2020

Massachusetts 2020

And 2008 (following a republican administration):

Oklahoma 2008

Massachusetts 2008

Once you get back to pre-social media era internet, you begin to see Oklahoma have shades of blue.

2000 1996 1992 1988

Perhaps we could collaborate on this.

Now that I have pulled Oklahoma’s electoral results going back to 1988, now you can pull Oklahoma’s education results going back over the same period of time and we can see if there is, in fact, a correlation between the quality of education (overall education rankings) and how the state votes in presidential elections.

I suspect that it was not purely the quality of education which influenced the “red shift”. I would bet that the lower-quality of education made the influence of social media more effective for those targeting the less educated to adopt a conservative political position.

Just share your findings here and we can work together.