{"id":38796885,"date":"2004-11-06T02:08:30","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T02:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2004\/11\/voting-patterns.html"},"modified":"2013-04-13T02:28:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:28:15","slug":"200411voting-patterns-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2004\/11\/06\/200411voting-patterns-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Patterns by IQ &#038; Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/ballot\/stateiq.asp\">consider this one debunked by snopes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take it with a big grain of salt <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/archives\/000824.html#disclaimer\">*<\/a>, because I can&#8217;t check the facts on the figures offered in these charts.  But look at the correlations to be found here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/attenuation.net\/files\/iq.htm\">State Vote listed by Avg. IQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.evankai.com\/red_v_blue_avg_personal_income.php\">State Vote listed by Avg. Personal Income<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see my home state of Virginia near the top of the listed Red states.  Perhaps there&#8217;s hopes for our aspirations to become blue after all!<\/p>\n<p>Still, there&#8217;s little comfort to be taken from any conclusion that this election amounted to the triumph of the stupid and intolerant.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"disclaimer\">*<\/a> <i>DISCLAIMER: everything on the Internet is of suspect origin and questionable reliability.  Be a skeptic.  My favorite site for checking the facts on Internet facts, rumors and urban legends is <a href=\"http:\/\/snopes.com\/\">snopes.com<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t find anything there specifically addressing these charts, but in time they might.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Thanks to Laura for the forward<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>update: consider this one debunked by snopes.com Take it with a big grain of salt *, because I can&#8217;t check the facts on the figures offered in these charts. But look at the correlations to be found here: State Vote listed by Avg. IQ State Vote lis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38796885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMQd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38796885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354644,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38796885\/revisions\/173354644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38796885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38796885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38796885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}