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    1. haydendking on

      Data: 2019-2023 American Community Survey accessed via API using tidycensus package in R
      Tools: R (packages: dplyr, ggplot2, sf, usmap, tools, ggfx, grid, scales)

    3. blahyawnblah on

      Funny thing about oregon is that percentage is about the same as the percent of people that graduate high school.

      I exaggerate, but it’s bad.

    4. eatingpotatochips on

      Probably an instance where excluding DC would be appropriate, since it is just an urban area, whereas even states like MA have some areas which aren’t urban.

    6. MasterOfBarterTown on

      Wyoming exports kids, many after getting a degree. A lot of those end up on the front range of Colorado.

    11. MoltenMate07 on

      When did Colorado become so great regarding median income and education?

    14. DeceptiveGold57 on

      This chart doesn’t factor in associates degrees and trade schools, which are perfectly acceptable forms of education.

    15. MasterOfBarterTown on

      I see a lot of this due to the influx of young, degreed people from other states. So, Illinois has the Chicago financial industry. Colorado has Denver and its outliers. Utah has a lifestyle location to draw programmers, etc. Virginia – college centers and US Federal workers? Georgia has HBCU grads relocating to Atlanta? Massachusetts has finance and insurance (and more – as well as the nation’s leader in secondary education outcomes).

      But why is Vermont’s percentage so high? Also, the same question applies to Minnesota (I’m assuming a lifestyle choice which helps businesses recruit).

    17. Andronixx on

      In other words, places with a high concentration of jobs requiring college degrees have more people with college degrees – go figure

    18. I-Like-Women-Boobs on

      As someone who regularly visits West Virginia and has a lot of family there, it’s not surprising in the slightest that they’re at the bottom.

    20. Description_Capable on

      Interesting data, but let’s be honest about what this actually shows vs what people want it to show.

      First off, having a bachelor’s degree doesn’t equal intelligence or wisdom. Plenty of brilliant people go into trades, start businesses, or join the military instead of racking up college debt. Mike Rowe’s been saying this for years – we’ve oversold college and undersold skilled trades.

      Second, look at the county map – even ‚uneducated‘ red states have highly educated urban cores. The divide isn’t really red vs blue states, it’s urban vs rural. Cities require degrees for most jobs while rural areas need farmers, mechanics, and tradespeople. Different economies, different needs.

      Funny how several of these ‚highly educated‘ states (Colorado, Mass, DC) were also first to legalize pot. Makes you wonder if all that education just taught them how to rationalize getting high. Or maybe they needed something to cope with their student loan payments.

      The real issue? We’re watching massive brain drain from rural to urban America, leaving behind communities that built this country. Instead of smugly pointing at education maps, maybe we should ask why we’ve created an economy where young people have to leave their hometowns to succeed.

      Also correlation isn’t causation – college grads concentrate in expensive cities because that’s where their degrees actually matter. Different lifestyle, different politics.

    21. KingKnowles on

      I graduated as the valedictorian of my high school in Arkansas which provided me tuition free college (from Walmart – they made us write yearly thank you letters) at an Arkansas state college. I am grateful for that!

      As soon as I graduated with my bachelor’s degree, I jumped on a plane and moved to Maryland. That has been one of the best decision of my life!

    23. Frost1288 on

      Have we looked at the exported data? People with a bachelor’s or higher leaving the state?

    24. Leucippus1 on

      Colorado only has 5 million people, it is a state with large numbers of tech engineers and mining/ag engineering, so that inflates us a bit in percentages.

    25. Miqo_Nekomancer on

      Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are all remaining true to form, I see.

    26. kodex1717 on

      Something tells me that DC would probably be in-line with other Northeastern cities if you considered only the municipal boundary, not the state.

    27. RagefireHype on

      I’m gonna be honest, this seems really high even for the low states. Do even 30% of adults above 18 go to college, let alone graduate?

    28. PimpOfJoytime on

      Jesus you’d be a bonafide genius in Arkansas with a Masters in anything.

    29. Salt_Principle_6672 on

      It’s THAT LOW?????? No wonder we’re in the mess we’re in jeeze 

    30. eta_carinae_311 on

      San Miguel county is where Telluride is located and Pitkin has Aspen, which are both known rich people places but I’m still kind of surprised to see them in the top 10. You’d think Boulder at least would have made it, I wonder if it’s because of the university and how many people are students not graduates? interesting

    31. zAbso on

      This chart is probably a bit misleading. I grew up in the south and got a bachelors degree in computer science. I moved out west after graduating since that’s where the job market is.

      I also know a lot of people that graduated with bachelors and masters that did the same. Plenty of educated people there, but you have to go where the market is for the degree you have.

    32. txa1265 on

      Could have added the (25 – 30%) and had bottom as <25% – but otherwise like this pair!

    33. ConfidentSuspect4125 on

      Interesting that this map is almost a duplicate of politicial red and blue states. I wonder which ones are most educated?

    35. The_Smoking_Pilot on

      I love the trend of showing us maps where the south is always the shittiest by every quantifiable metric

    36. whydid7eat9 on

      I have always thought people in one of those yellow states were dumber than average, and now I have proof!

    37. Jenny_Saint_Quan on

      All the people getting a bachelors degree in Lousiana are leaving the state for better jobs

    39. agentoutlier on

      My wife and I live in Boston suburb and we feel below average with our bachelors degrees. (I wanted to go back but decided to start a business).

      Every one of our neighbors has like a masters or higher.

      The state makes you feel like a pariah if you do not have a degree.

    43. OverflowDs on

      If I was you, I would use the 1 year estimates for state level estimates. They are more recent and reliable enough at the state level.

    45. tyen0 on

      I was flabbergasted that it was only 1/3 of the country but when I saw that it was 2/3 of my county, I guess it explains my confusion.

      I also find 25 as the age cut off interesting since most people should get it at 21/22 (4 years after high school) but I was in that cohort that took longer due to working full time and college part time.

    46. _dirt_vonnegut on

      DC is not a state (contrary to the legend), and not identified on the map (like all other states). The data is not beautiful.

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