primitives bashing the South.....again

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024198170

Oh my.

xchrom (97,788 posts)   Thu Dec 19, 2013, 06:47 AM

The South Is America's High-School Dropout Factory

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/the-south-is-americas-high-school-dropout-factory/282480/
 
Are Americans educated enough? How you answer that question—which seems to obsess certain newspaper editorial boards—really depends on where in the country you look. Some states compete with the best school systems in the world. Some seem to be racing for the bottom. Today, I wanted to offer up three vivid illustrations of how educationally balkanized we really are, courtesy of the Census Bureau's delightful new interactive data-mapping tool.
 
First, high school. This map shows the percentage of adults over 25 who have earned a diploma or finished an equivalency program across each county in the lower 48 states. The darker the shade of orange, the higher the graduation rate. Notice the giant pale underbelly stretching below the Mason Dixon line from the Southeast through Texas. That's our Southern dropout belt, where completion rates are largely below 85 percent. The national average, for reference, is about 87 percent.

after which a map

Still, in the majority of the country, most adults have at least earned a high school diploma or a GED. Not so when it comes to college.
 
Bachelor's degree holders cluster on the coasts, in major urban centers, and in Colorado. The Northeast's Acela corridor is especially full of them. So while, about 31 percent of American adults have a bachelor's degree or more, across many of our counties, fewer than one in five residents graduated from college.

hobbit709 (29,092 posts)   Thu Dec 19, 2013, 06:50 AM

1. And they're proud of it.

Okay, question, and I think a reasonable question.

How do the graduation rates in the South compare, when one separates the 0bama voters from the non-0bama voters?  One suspects the 0bama voters in the South consist of the bulk of the high school drop-out rate there.

Anybody have any idea?

[DefiantSix]

primitives bashing the South.....again

[youtube=425,350]www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbpwJFi152U[/youtube]

[Carl]

The Atlantic is a leftist rag and is being blatantly misleading by not including the demographics.

[franksolich]

I've always been curious what impression the primitives have, of the South.

To read them, it's apparent they believe the southern states are wholly populated by people of European derivation, that it's lily-white down there; that everybody's a buck-toothed hillbilly or yahoo.

But don't the southern states have the largest percentages of non-European-derived minorities of all the 50 states?

[JohnnyReb]

I've always been curious what impression the primitives have, of the South.

To read them, it's apparent they believe the southern states are wholly populated by people of European derivation, that it's lily-white down there; that everybody's a buck-toothed hillbilly or yahoo.

But don't the southern states have the largest percentages of non-European-derived minorities of all the 50 states?

Yes.....and democrat policies have made them a millstone around the neck of everyone.

[USA4ME]

How do the graduation rates in the South compare, when one separates the 0bama voters from the non-0bama voters?  One suspects the 0bama voters in the South consist of the bulk of the high school drop-out rate there.

Anybody have any idea?

The overwhelming majority of dropouts are minorities (black and Latino), and they vote for Democrats. So "And they're proud of it" indeed.

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[franksolich]

The overwhelming majority of dropouts are minorities (black and Latino), and they vote for Democrats. So "And they're proud of it" indeed.

Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute here.

Wasn't poor lil Trayvon an honors student in high school, on track for graduation and all these free-ride college scholarships based upon academic merit, until he assaulted George?

[BattleHymn]

Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute here.

Wasn't poor lil Trayvon an honors student in high school, on track for graduation and all these free-ride college scholarships based upon academic merit, until he assaulted George?

  Good one.

[USA4ME]

Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute here.

Wasn't poor lil Trayvon an honors student in high school, on track for graduation and all these free-ride college scholarships based upon academic merit, until he assaulted George?

Trayvon now honors us in his death.

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[DUmpsterDiver]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024198170

How do the graduation rates in the South compare, when one separates the 0bama voters from the non-0bama voters?  One suspects the 0bama voters in the South consist of the bulk of the high school drop-out rate there.

Anybody have any idea?

It appears a good Samaritan has now posted the obvious stats in their south bashfest thread.  As expected, there is no discussion of the obvious fact that our POtuS sons and daughters have better things to do than finish school.  If the North was not so diluted with white slaves to the preferred race, it too would show similar statistics I'm sure.

[hillneck]

xchrom (97,788 posts)   Thu Dec 19, 2013, 06:47 AM

The South Is America's High-School Dropout Factor
 
Bachelor's degree holders cluster on the coasts

Yeah those liberal arts degrees give you so much to look forward to in life.  That piece of paper isn't worth toilet paper if the education is something that is marketable.   

[dandi]

And yet all those self-proclaimed "educated" idiots of DU always seem to be unemployed, underemployed, mentally ill, incapable of creating and maintaining relationships with others including their own family, perpetually angry and unfulfilled, and just generally unable to survive without government support.

Apparently, their academic acumen qualifies them only to spend the greater part of their days sitting on a message board and lamenting what utter cluster****s their lives are. That's a strange measure of "intelligence".

[DumbAss Tanker]

xchrom (97,788 posts)   Thu Dec 19, 2013, 06:47 AM

The South Is America's High-School Dropout Factory

Compare like ethnic/racial districts in each, and I guarantee you won't like the results.

[dandi]

Compare like ethnic/racial districts in each, and I guarantee you won't like the results.

The same goes for those "federal dollars spent" the DUmmies like to crow about when they claim southern states are "net takers".