Yet they donate more to charity and score higher on current event quizzes... Its garbage in garbage out. Half these people with degrees don't have a single marketable skill and are functional idiots. Those quality of life stats are soooo misleading. Im not trading my semi rural KY life for NYC or San Fran. Those people may say they are happy but its the free sandwich conundrum added with self worth through group history.
Yes because a state like New Hampshire, which #2 on the list for states with the best quality of life but also ranks #1 for states with most tree coverage (89%, compared to Kentucky's 58%), is teeming with the big city life!
The average city/town population in New Hampshire, of which there are 231, is 5,786. The average city/town in Kentucky, of which there are 533, is 4,930.
NH only has three cities with a population over 40K in Manchester (112K), Nashua (89K), and Concord (43K). Meanwhile, KY's biggest cities are Louisville/Jefferson County Metro (618K, and that's how it's listed on the website I'm looking at), Lexington-Fayette (321K), Bowling Green (68K), Owensboro (59K), and Covington (41K).
One can have a high quality of life while living in a largely rural state.
Meanwhile, all these people with college degrees have such a complete lack of marketable skills that in 2019, a person with a master's degree had an average weekly salary of $1,559 while those with a bachelor's had an average weekly salary of $1,281. Meanwhile, all those people with an advanced skillset that have some college and no degree only made $874 a week while those with a HS diploma and no college only made $749.
And is this the same current events quiz you are talking about? The one that has those with as little as just some college experience (which could mean you took one class on one day), on average, answering 11.5 questions correctly compared to 9.6 without any college experience? This doesn't help your crusade against college education.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2011/11/07/what-the-public-knows-in-words-and-pictures/
And the increase in charitable giving by conservatives can easily be chalked up to them having to fund stuff more on the private market because their state governments are proving far less for the needy in the form of taxes. Better funded organizations don't have to rely on charity as much as poorly funded organizations.
Got any other factually flawed opinions you'd like to share?