West Virginia Primaries: Coda
Looking at the exit polls of the West Virginia primaries from MSNBC, and this result caught my eye.
Q: What was the last grade of school you completed?
College graduate: %Total 16. Clinton: 60. Obama: 32.
Postgraduate study: %Total 14. Clinton: 55. Obama: 40.
After all that slander about how racist West Virginia was for voting Sen. Clinton because West Virginia has such a high rate of those uninformed and uneducated, and yet those professionals in the Mountaineer State with Bachelors degrees... and Masters degrees... and Doctorate degrees.... all still went for Hillary by double digits.
This can mean only one thing. West Virginia's professional elite is as hopelessly bigoted as its barefoot banjo playing high school dropouts.
That, or some folks owe West Virginia an apology.
Q: What was the last grade of school you completed?
College graduate: %Total 16. Clinton: 60. Obama: 32.
Postgraduate study: %Total 14. Clinton: 55. Obama: 40.
After all that slander about how racist West Virginia was for voting Sen. Clinton because West Virginia has such a high rate of those uninformed and uneducated, and yet those professionals in the Mountaineer State with Bachelors degrees... and Masters degrees... and Doctorate degrees.... all still went for Hillary by double digits.
This can mean only one thing. West Virginia's professional elite is as hopelessly bigoted as its barefoot banjo playing high school dropouts.
That, or some folks owe West Virginia an apology.
posted by Lee | 11:53 PM
5 Comments:
You want them to check the numbers?? To go by facts?? Oh, you are really reaching now!! I just don't get it. You can be black and vote for Obama because he is black and that is OK. But if you are white and vote for Clinton because she is white you are racist. Either both are racist or neither are!
I suppose we should be thankful the MSM wasn't playing clips of the Beverly Hillbillies while waiting for the results to come in!
So, the more educated you are, the more likely you are to support Barack Obama...what changes with these numbers?
Not the best spin I've seen, Sean.
40% is still only 40%. And that's among the doctorate class, who would surely be most likely to vote for a former Univ of Chicago law professor.
Lee,
If the argument is that the less education you have, the more likely you are to oppose Barack Obama; your numbers prove that (at least among White Appalachians).
Education is a factor in this race, region is a factor, issues are a factor, racism is a factor, sexism is a factor; it all depends as to what degree it is a factor, and where the emphasis is.
I can't argue with that last comment. Like I've been saying, it is just the too wide of a brush stereotyping that I've had a problem with.
Of course age, education, gender and race all are factors. That's why these campaigns pay big bucks for people to study demographics.
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