Scott,
Your cultural elitist guy seems to have gotten some of his information wrong.
You are 25 percent more likely to hold a college degree if you live in the Democratic northeast than in the red state south. Blue state voters are 25 percent more likely, therefore, to understand the historical and cultural ramifications of Bush's brand of bull-in-a-china-shop foreign policy.
The truth is, except for those few voters with some "post graduate study" Bush voters WERE more highly educated than Kerry voters, once you got above the minimum threshold of a high school education. High school dropouts were, however, more likely to vote for Kerry:
Did not complete high school (50% voted for Kerry, 49% voted for Bush).
High school graduate (48% voted for Kerry, 51% voted for Bush)
Some college (46% voted for Kerry, 53% voted for Bush)
College graduate (47% voted for Kerry, 51% voted for Bush).
Only in the category of "some post graduate work", which would be a fairly small fraction of the millions of voters, did Kerry lead Bush, 55% to 43%. Almost all unionized teachers belong to this group, of course.
Also, if you were married, no matter what, you favored Bush. If you were unmarried, you favored Kerry.
Go to the following site and click on "Who voted and why" lower right hand side.
usatoday.com
(By the way, I never heard of this guy and have to say his prose style and ideas leave more than a little to be desired; when you look into his background, you realize he's a cartoonist with, apparently, little talent:
tedrall.com
But, as for art, as they say, a chacun son gout) |
