It just can't be true that people with more education would tend to align with the "conservative" Republican party. "However, in most national and regional studies on voting behavior... just such a relationship is typically observed..."
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2778029?sid=21105143536851&uid=3739256&uid=2129&uid=4&uid=2&uid=3739848&uid=70
Really?? But we are taught to assume the opposite. After all "for every one percentage point increase in college graduates in a state, the percentage of Democratic identifiers increases by 0.75 percent":
http://www.progressivepolicy.org/blog/more-college-graduates-more-democratic-voters/
But wait... the research results are actually all over the board:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201305/intelligence-and-politics-have-complex-relationship
So, if you want to understand how human political activity, there is a lot to absorb. But if you want to find research that confirms what you want to be true, there is a lot to choose from.
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