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A Bit Of Humor; Concerning the Recent Election
Topic Started: Nov 7 2004, 08:35 AM (371 Views)
Peralko
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This study is obviously flawed. Just look at the the stats: 8 of 10 states in the top ten are in the northeast! If those folks had a high IQ, they would not be living where they are living. Doesn't everybody know the smartest folks live in Texas? :musicbox: :dance: :yahoo: :beer: :cowboy: :D
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brewster
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I dunno about that - When I lived in Calgary, the neighbours on both sides of me were from Dallas, and they agreed that the smart Texans all moved to Calgary... :hi5:

According to the last stats I saw, there are more Texans in Calgary than there are in Texas City. :cowboy:

Then they went too far and claimed it was the Texans that made Calgary such a great city... :crazy:
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
The originator of the "hoax" (or was it) explains: IQ and Politics.

And presents other correlations...

How State IQ relates to income and politics. Factual. Apolitical.

States By % of Population with Bachelor's Degrees. Factual. Apolitical.


And perhaps most interesting: Walking the walk on family values
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PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to "Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these people, and here is what I found.

The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts. At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population, while the rate for Texas was 4.1.

But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50 states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians have among the highest divorce rates.

The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per thousand people." The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

...For all the Bible Belt talk about family values, it is the people from Kerry's home state, along with their neighbors in the Northeast corridor, who live these values...Family values are much more likely to be found in the states mistakenly called out-of-the-mainstream liberal. By their behavior you can know them as the true conservatives. They are showing how to conserve family life through the way they live their family values.


There's just so much hypocrasy in politics...
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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Peralko
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According to the last stats I saw, there are more Texans in Calgary than there are in Texas City. 

Then they went too far and claimed it was the Texans that made Calgary such a great city...


Sounds reasonable to me! :)
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