"I love the poorly educated"

https://lemmy.world/post/22092007

"I love the poorly educated" - Lemmy.World

So wait, the poor and the hopeless, looking for some kind of help, voted unanimously for TRUMP, and those happy with their current conditions and wanting no change voted for Harris.

The maps were identical in 2020 (following a republican administration):

Oklahoma 2020

Massachusetts 2020

And 2008 (following a republican administration):

Oklahoma 2008

Massachusetts 2008

Once you get back to pre-social media era internet, you begin to see Oklahoma have shades of blue.

2000 1996 1992 1988

Perhaps we could collaborate on this.

Now that I have pulled Oklahoma’s electoral results going back to 1988, now you can pull Oklahoma’s education results going back over the same period of time and we can see if there is, in fact, a correlation between the quality of education between the overall education rankings and how the state votes in presidential elections.

I suspect that it was not purely the quality of education which influenced the “red shift”. I would bet that the lower-quality of education made the influence of social media more effective for those targeting the less educated to adopt a conservative political position.

Just share your findings here and we can work together.

File:Oklahoma Presidential Election Results 2020.svg - Wikipedia

Well done. I’ll leave the post up, but I’ll admit that the Massachusetts/Oklahoma example is a bad one to make the case that Trump was the populist in this election and Harris was a vote for the conservative “no change” position.
Ah yes, of course, Kamala was the more conservative option in the last election. Donald Trump is also an actual populist that cares about you. You are very smart. /s

Yes, I believe that was actually true. Look at him, slashing and burning his way through cabinet appointments.

She was definitely the more conservative choice. It’s ok that I’m not smart.