ChatGPT report on Trump winning via lower educated voters
AOG
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How 2024 Trump-voting states stack up on college attainment
State (Trump 2024) | Adults 25+ with a Bachelor’s degree or higher (ACS 2023) |
|---|---|
Utah | 36.9 % |
Kansas | 35.2 % |
North Carolina | 34.7 % |
Montana | 34.5 % |
Pennsylvania | 34.5 % |
Georgia | 34.2 % |
Nebraska | 34.1 % |
Florida | 33.2 % |
Texas | 33.1 % |
Wisconsin | 32.8 % |
Arizona | 32.6 % |
North Dakota | 32.3 % |
Missouri | 31.9 % |
Michigan | 31.8 % |
South Carolina | 31.5 % |
Alaska | 31.2 % |
Idaho | 31.2 % |
South Dakota | 31.1 % |
Iowa | 30.9 % |
Ohio | 30.9 % |
Tennessee | 30.4 % |
New Mexico | 30.2 % |
Wyoming | 29.9 % |
Indiana | 28.8 % |
Alabama | 27.8 % |
Oklahoma | 27.8 % |
Nevada | 27.4 % |
Kentucky | 27.0 % |
Louisiana | 26.6 % |
Arkansas | 25.1 % |
Mississippi | 24.2 % |
West Virginia | 23.3 % |
National baseline: 35.0 % of U.S. adults hold at least a bachelor’s degree. (worldpopulationreview.com)
Key findings
- Trump won 31 of 50 states in 2024. (Wikipedia)
- Average college-degree share across those 31 states is ≈ 30.9 % (median 31.2 %), 4 percentage points below the national average.
- Only two Trump states (Utah 36.9 %, Kansas 35.2 %) exceed the national rate.
- The lowest-attainment cluster—West Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky—sits 8-12 points under the U.S. average.
- Upper-Midwest and Mountain GOP wins (e.g., Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming) post mid-30 % figures—higher than the Deep South but still below the country overall.
- Pattern: 29 of the 31 Trump states fall short of the national bachelor’s share, confirming the broader 2024 trend that states with lower college attainment leaned more heavily Republican, with Utah and Kansas the notable outliers. (Axios highlighted Utah as the *“most-educated Trump state.”) (Axios)
What the numbers suggest
- Education gap remains wide: 2024 continued the post-2016 alignment where college-heavy states (e.g., MA 46.6 %, CO 44.7 %, NJ 42.9 %) favored Democrats, while most lower-attainment states moved further right.
- Regional nuance: Plains & Mountain states combine relatively high high-school completion with middling bachelor’s rates—enough to keep them GOP despite slowly rising college attainment.
- Outliers matter: Utah’s 37 % bachelor’s rate shows culture and religion can override educational correlations; Kansas barely clears the national bar yet still reflects its long GOP history.
- Policy angle: For campaign strategists or policy makers, economic and educational investments in these lower-degree states could shift or solidify future electoral coalitions.
Bottom line:
The 2024 map underscores a strong inverse relationship between a state’s share of college graduates and its likelihood of voting for Donald Trump—with just two exceptions out of 31 Republican states breaching the national college-degree average.
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I haven't double-checked this report but it looks correct, which tends to show that people that aren't smart enough to get through college are also most likely to vote Trump.
AOG, PhD
Comments
Look at the Tug leftards. Supposedly college educated and one with a mythical MBA and a hypothetical law degree that can't put together any cogent argument espousing a policy preference. Who was correct on the chicom crud, non-college graduate Joe Rogan or credentialed St. Fow Chee? A wise man once said:
One of the dumber posters here posted a word salad that no one will read
That's my banker
You mean "can't read." Trump himself writes at a level of grammar below elementary school proficiency. He is known for not being able to focus his attention long enough to read reports and staff reportedly want to put together FOX like news reports just so he will pay attention. The problem we have is idiots voting for idiots.
Once again AOG proves my point. An opportunity to explain why Trump's policies are bad for the country and he is worried about grammar and "focus". Apparently he longs for the "sharp as a tack" dementia patient. Geezus.
What did he think about Central? Buckley was kind of a snob you know. The Harvard crack probably came from the fact that he was a Yale man.
Make a billion dollars and then pop off you fucking retard
meltdown!
Weirdo after weirdo with these TigTards, and they all have glaring personality oddities and also obsessive posting tics.
I do appreciate AOG because Ive never seen someone be so obviously and confidently wrong on something and then claim victory before he ghosts.
LOL! Anyone who has a long career of hiring and firing needs to join in on this conversation.
The garbage the school systems are pumping into the workforce since the late 90's is astoundingly unqualified, unmotivated and completely void of any idea of what it takes to get promoted or succeed. No offense to anyone, I went to Aloha High School in Aloha OR so I can say this, if you are hiring someone from the public school systems (including higher ed) on the West coast, you will interview 10X more people to find one that fits than you had to 30 years ago. I went through this transition of quality to no-quality in candidates and it shook your belief in our country, especially parents and the school systems.
I could go on an on about liberals thinking they are smarter when deep down inside they know they aren't and are secretly lacking in self-confidence, which always manifests itself in their claim that everyone else is dumber than they are because they went to a liberal arts college and got degrees in literature or women's studies. They come out over 100K in debt and then expect everyone else to pay for their stupid mistake. Hardly intelligent individuals.
All one needs to review is the attack on Wall Street, the BLM riots, blindly following mask and distancing rules, the antifa crowd, and you see exactly what liberals look like. Liberals are not prepared for the real world so they try to destroy it.
This is only a study of college graduation rates, not whether someone is a conservative or liberal. You guys associate so much evil with education that I've even been awarded a PhD here.
Your PHD translates to Petty Hateful Demonrat. HTH
They only reason liberals pay for this kind of study is to equate education with political party and infer that liberals are smarter, when I would venture that the claim is a bunch of shit.
You don't even have a worthless UW degree and you're coming at this angle. You have a worthless Central degree and you're coming at this angle.
Stuck in the year 2000 and just completely fucking clueless.
You buy dinner before the strawman ass phucking started? Define education? Education is not a degree. At a minimum in today's world you need an actual understanding of history, economics, math and science and the ability to read and understand what you read and then be able to communicate it to others. Education also includes intellectual curiosity and an ability to change your mind when faced with evidence. Like I didn't vote for Trump in 2016 because I didn't trust him to follow through on his policy statements. But then he did as much as he was able to. He also learned about the deep state and what he needed to do to at least try to fix it. Your seeing it right now. Border closed. Trillions in investment coming into the US. Thousands of worthless counter-productive federal employees being let go. Dem NGOs defunded. Given that evidence I was an enthusiastic Trump voter in 2020 and 2024.
Our dem Senator Ron Wyden, former Senate Finance Chair has a law degree from Oregon but never could pass the bar. So he has a degree and yet is dumber than a bag of hammers. Votes for restricting coal, gas and nuke electrical power and for green solar and wind electric projects and associated required transmission improvements and then renewable mandates. Then when Oregonians are smashed with a 50% electricity rate increase since 2020 he is shocked and his solution is to try to deny the electric utilities compensation for the projects he made them development. He has learned nothing except to double down on what hasn't worked. Sound familiar? Wyden is really the Senator from China.
You’re clearly not PhD material. They are making fun of you, Rainman. It’s called sarcasm.
I wasn’t being literal when I called you “Einstein,” either.
You know that the point of politicians is to get votes right?
Dems are always bragging about getting a smaller and smaller minority of voters.
Impressive stuff. Keep bringing those big wins
"More educated"
Aka
"DEI Degrees"
What you guys don't understand, because you went to college a long time ago and dropped out, or never went, is that in fact it's hard work. It depends what you take and who you listen to. The only kind of politically correct thing I even remember is that my philosophy professor looked down on Christianity in general, although he never came out and said it.
lol at thinking an undergrad is hard work. Pre-med has like 4-5 challenging courses over a 4 year tract.
Of course then this moron goes on to talk about his philosophy professor
Gmafb 🤣