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conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I suppose you don’t realize that California isn’t just skyscrapers and beaches. The overwhelming majority of the state, by geography, is pretty rural. In fact, if the state election was won by geography instead of by popular vote, California would be reliably republican. This is a lot more of a self-own than you think.
SJ0@hilariouschaos.com 3 months ago
I suppose you don’t realize that they don’t measure literacy by square meter?
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Why not? We’re already measuring by geography when measuring by state. Let’s turn up the resolution a little.
SJ0@hilariouschaos.com 3 months ago
You measure literacy rate as literate people per 100 people because people are literate, pieces of land tend to be unable to read or write or do math on account of being inanimate objects. More importantly, we have voter totals and literacy rates per state where nobody is measuring square meters of literacy or square meters or Republicans because that’s silly.
Now because this discussion is just stupid, let’s be real for a minute: the major factors for literacy isn’t left vs. right on a statewide basis.
California is relatively illiterate, just like Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, and New York. They’re illiterate because people who barely speak English much less read and write it tend to end up in those places which is why new york is one of the outliers, the same way Toronto is Canada for many, New York is America for many and so they end up there as adults.
Other illiterate states such as Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Alabama are illiterate in part because of the legacy of slavery and past racist public policy, and in part due to long-standing (but apolitical) aspects of laid back southern culture.
Among the most literate states in the union are blue new Hampshire and Vermont, and red Alaska and Montana. Which really is the point.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Damn, this is a lot more of an informed and nuanced take than the meme. Your meme kinda sucks at getting this point across, dawg.
But I’ll point out that literacy rates will probably show more interesting variations that could support your points if you did look at literacy rates by sqkm on a map. Maybe I didn’t do a good job communicating that, but that’s the idea: look at literacy rates across each sqkm in the US. Supposing you’re right, you’d expect to see literacy rates in metro areas drop acutely compared to the outlying areas.
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 3 months ago
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