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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a pretty good correlation between higher education levels and voting blue.  Arlington fits that pattern.[/quote]
So do baltimore and Detroit. What are the literacy rates there?[/quote]

PP wrote "good correlation," not "perfect correlation," but do go on about literacy.[/quote]

Maybe let’s try “meaningless correlation.”[/quote]

It's not meaningless at all. It's perhaps one of the most important drivers of the past few election cycles. We can sit here and argue 'til we're blue in the face about whether it's a push or a pull, but the highly-educated are increasingly voting D by increasingly larger majorities, and those with a high school degree or less are increasingly voting R by increasingly larger majorities. And, by virtue of the fact that there are many more white people than black people in the country, there are vastly more uneducated white people voting R than there are uneducated black people voting D.

These are facts. You can call it meaningless because it conflicts with your priors and you can't reason away the cognitive dissonance, or because it hurts your feelings on account of your superiority complex, but it's not a meaningless correlation.[/quote]

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