(March 9, 2014 at 4:06 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: So in other words low IQ white voters in Texas voted for a low IQ white politician.
Where did you get the impression for that?
I have yet to read a study comparing IQ among white non-hispanic people from different states. Chances are that any differences in IQ among those are practically nil.
I know a lot of conservative republican voters. And then thing that really freaks me out, the same as religion, is that being religious or a conservative republican does not frequently hinge on IQ IME.
I would hazard a guess that people with low IQs would be more likely to go along with how they were raised and those they lived among.
So idiots would continue voting for Democrats or Republics it you happened to have been raised among Democrats or Republicans.
Whereas higher IQ people would be more likely to split from the group they were raised among if they could find compelling, logical reasons to do so. This would all depend, of course, on whether they agree logically or not with the group they were raised by.
As for the Red/Blue divide. All the large cities in Texas already vote Democrat. It's only the rural citizens that are keeping Texas Republican. And that's getting closer and closer every year.
41% of Texans voted for Obama in 2012.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
