Well Dave, having lived in both the city and the country, I can tell you there are PLENTY of "less" educated in the MASSES of the city. Not everyone lives in those quaint lofts we see on the TV shows. A great number are crammed into tenements and lower income housing. What makes them so "educated" when compared to rural folks considering many urbanites didn't finish high school much less go to college? Dallas county voted blue in this election? Was it because they were so much better educated than the surrounding counties? Or was it because Dallas is 54% Hispanic and they tend to block vote? I'm sure that suggestion outrages you Dave, but that statement isn't something I just made up. You see my sister in law is Mexican...straight outta Chihuahua where a big piece of her family still lives. Those that are here, while HUGELY conservative in their values, completely buy into the "Republicans want to send us all back" mantra they've been taught. And so they lined up and voted for Hillary. Guess what? They are still here. And they will be after Jan 20 as well... They are LEGAL. Heck one of my wife's students said they were going to be sent to Tennessee if Trump won. Huh???? Hmmm... I'm sure Tom and Cindy would let us know that's not a terrible thing, but it sure was ridiculous. And it came straight from that kid's parents. City folk... who are obviously at the top of the educational pyramid... :roll:
So we had areas of the country that haven't felt the failure of the Obama economy. They live in the financial center, NYC, the government center DC and northern VA., the Entertainment center and tech centers on the west coast. These folks haven't seen their wages stagnate for years. Their property values haven't cratered. And then there are those in coal country and the rust belt. For 8 years they've seen nothing from Washington except ******** and higher health care costs. They're appalled that we don't control our border. They wonder who's taxes pay the medical and educational costs of those living in the shadows. They see a White House that cares more about black thugs like Travon Martin and Michael Brown than it cares about assassinated cops. They've seen a Justice Department that is hopelessly corrupt evidenced from its failure to prosecute the Black Panthers in Philly, to the illegal withholding of tax exempt status to conservative groups by the IRS to the secretive meeting of the AG and Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac. They've seen their government actually sue a state for trying to enforce immigration laws and they've seen their right to privacy in bathrooms usurped by ridiculous orders from Washington. In states like Penn., Ohio, W. Va., Ky., Mich., Wisc., and NC they've had it and they let the left know it.
Educational communities are similar to what I listed.... Gainesville, Ann Arbor, Chapel Hill etc. They stand out like a sore thumb on the red-blue map. I don't propose that education and higher learning is represented by big cities.... absolutely not... although in some such as Boston there are certainly large centers of higher learning to be found.
One of the most difficult things in life is overcoming stereotyping by others. Humans instinctively make snap shot judgements on those around them with most assertions not very high. I read that this is actually part of the "fight or flight" programming we have hard wired into us. Generally the larger the differences the easier it is to pass judgement. I've lived in cities and rural settings and both have the same mix or blend of intelligence, one just has a larger population. There are Bubbas mixed in both groups as well as Mensa candidates. The most fascinating people to me are those who can be a member of Mensa but can't be bothered because they would rather interact with the Bubbas of the world as well. By the way I try to hang with as many intelligent people as possible to hide my IQ inadequacy in this big world but usually get noticed when I can't get my boots off fast enough to count my toes during math equations