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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
(Why does the bible belt have the lowest rate of college graduates?)
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Nothing to back it up I'm afraid, but I'm wondering if part of it may have something to do with the industries prevalent in the respective areas -- the more "professional" an area is, the more cash folks seem to have for things like college.
Then too, "Bible Belt" areas
may have a generally higher regard for "tradesmanship" -- i.e. carpenters, plumbers and such.
Then there's the question of the statistic itself -- which is it counting?
- College degrees earned in each state (affected by number of universities)
- College degree holders resident in each state (affected by employment types available)
- Number of natives of each state that get college degrees (affected by any number of things)
- Something else entirely (all bets are off!
)
Personally, I don't really care if a person is a garbage collector or a CEO -- the real question to me is, "is he/she the CEO of anything
worthwhile?"
Th fundamental contribution of garbage collectors to society is brutally obvious.
