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Smartest States

by: midas

Someone or something named Morgan Quinto did a ranking of states by “smartness.” They used a variety of measures, such as percentage of high school graduates, college graduates, test scores, education funding, class sizes, education costs, and that sort of thing.

Anyways, Virginia ranked 6th, which is pretty damn good (there are a total of 50 “states”). All of the ones ranked above it are in New England (if you count Maine as New England), which we all know is filled with snobby intelligentsia anyways, so we can disqualify them based on the fact that they use all of their books to cheat and that the winters are really, really cold.

Here is the list.

PS: Arizona is the stupidest state.

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  1. Aren’t these the guys that started the whole Richmond VA vs. Richmond CA violence war awhile ago?

    Also if you are a state and are stupider than Alaska, I feel sorry for you.

    — MaxPower | @

  2. Hey midas… you from Arizona? New Jersey is not part of New England. ;-)

    — Daniel | @

  3. maybe you can clear this up for me, because i’ve always just though of everything in the northeast as new england? i guess it isn’t?

    also why don’t all those little states up there team up and make like one real state? stop embarrassing the rest of us in front of canada you know?

    — midas | @

  4. Sure. New England is Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

    — Daniel | @

  5. well i learned something today.

    — midas | @

  6. WTF? Not New York?

    — RMSzero | @

  7. Huh, I guess you’re right.

    — RMSzero | @

  8. Next smartest southern state NC at 23rd. I think if you just looked at base sallaries for teachers (k-12) you would get a similar listing only with virginia much lower.

    — nic | @

  9. any state with “new” in it’s name should be part of “new england.” i think. even new mexico. why not?

    i never really knew for sure what made up new england either. so, other than boston, what’s there? i guess there’s some lighthouses in maine or something?

    — Wolf | @

  10. It amazes me the ignorance we Americans have of our own country. I know I’m horribly ignorant of the south and southern culture myself… but it has amazed me the things I’ve heard about northerners since we’ve been here. I’d say 98% of it is completely wrong.

    I do know something about New England though. My family lived in Connecticut for a few years when I was little and then we lived in eastern upstate NY for quite a few years after that. I haven’t been to Maine yet, but I’ve been to the rest of the New England states.

    The country up there is really beautiful. The northern states(Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine) are not very developed and have very beautiful mountains and forests. The southern states(Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island) are much more developed, have beautiful older homes, lots of older universities and gorgeous waterfront. Definitely worth a visit.

    — Daniel | @

  11. i was really just kidding. well, kindof.
    i’ve been to the southern 3.

    my wife has always had this crazy unexplained desire to go to maine. i told her we’d go, but we’re waiting for global warming to make it tolerable.

    — Wolf | @

  12. So what if I don’t know that New York is in New England? At least I know that the museum district isn’t the Fan. How many New Yorkers know that? Huh??!

    — RMSzero | @

  13. With the information Daniel provided we now have what it takes to launch Va. past New England. You have just *spared* New Jersey from our intellectual wrath.

    — vanimal3000 | @

  14. I hear that northerners actually consume the flesh of unborn babies as a means of protecting themselves against sexually transmitted diseases. Can anyone who as traveled to this *New* England and returned alive verify?

    — MaxPower | @

  15. No, no silly… the flesh of the unborn(stem cells) is believed to have the magical powers to cure all diseases, not just the sexually transmitted kinds. ;-)

    — Daniel | @

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