EDUCATION AND LIBERALISM. Over at the Corner, Jonah Goldbergcites uncritically a letter writer who says, "I have been hoping for a long time that black Americans would stop voting monolithically Democratic as they became more educated and successful." Now why doesn't Goldberg contradict this assumption that being more educated would lead a group to be more conservative? Voters with post-graduate education were the only educational demographic to favor John Kerry by a considerable margin, to take one example. And, as discussed in Goldberg's post, Jews are both a highly educated and highly liberal ethnic group in the United States. Perhaps Goldberg doesn't want to acknowledge that educated people may be turned off by the anti-intellectualism of movement conservatism.
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