Rural Uneducated - and the importance of The Comma

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I've been seeing this blog going around Facebook: http://www.messykennedy.com/2016/11/09/rural-uneducated-person/

and in it is the following:

Well let me tell you I am one of those “uneducated” people living in a rural area.

I have 2 degrees from a Big 10 school, traveled the country and the world, and I choose to live in Rural America. I have friends that live in our area who have degrees from various elite universities.
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She is not uneducated, therefore she is not who they are talking about. People need to re-learn what an intersection is and what the purpose of the comma is. I was a rural, uneducated person for 32 years, and I never once thought anyone on TV meant "rural uneducated" and meant everyone in a rural area was uneducated. It was always "rural, uneducated" to me. They are simply talking about a demographic group; those who live in a rural area AND are uneducated.

Rural people tend to vote Republican.
Rural, Uneducated people have an even higher tendency to vote Republican.
Urban, uneducated people tend to vote Democratic.

Thus the need to distinguish.

If I was to make a blog post in defense of the rural, uneducated, I would talk about how uneducated does not mean stupid. I'm not smarter now than I was before I got my degrees. I'm just more knowledgeable on a narrow subject.

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The impression I got from ABC news was that those stupid toothless cracker hick men got Trump elected.

On a side note, I saw a graph showing that essentially Trump got about the same amount of votes that McCain got in 2008, but Obama got about twice as many votes in 2008 as Hilary got this year. Yet I swore that the media said that turnout was similar to what it was the past 2 elections. Any help?

 
cornstar said:
On a side note, I saw a graph showing that essentially Trump got about the same amount of votes that McCain got in 2008, but Obama got about twice as many votes in 2008 as Hilary got this year. Yet I swore that the media said that turnout was similar to what it was the past 2 elections. Any help?
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Blah blah blah something something Common Core, y'know
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cornstar said:
The impression I got from ABC news was that those stupid toothless cracker hick men got Trump elected.

On a side note, I saw a graph showing that essentially Trump got about the same amount of votes that McCain got in 2008, but Obama got about twice as many votes in 2008 as Hilary got this year. Yet I swore that the media said that turnout was similar to what it was the past 2 elections. Any help?
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This is the lowest turnout (%-wise) since 1996. A lot of people didn't like either candidate, so probably figured why vote?

 
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cornstar said:
On a side note, I saw a graph showing that essentially Trump got about the same amount of votes that McCain got in 2008, but Obama got about twice as many votes in 2008 as Hilary got this year. Yet I swore that the media said that turnout was similar to what it was the past 2 elections. Any help?
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I saw two different versions of the same graph. You should probably:

1 - Look at the raw numbers.

2 - Look at the y-axis.

3 - Consider whether there was an intent to beguile and mislead on the part of the graph creators.

As far as turnout goes, I believe what I've read is more or less, the Democrats didn't turn out. I don't know how accurate that is; someone with data can fill me in. I haven't read the media specifically saying turnout was similar to the previous two elections. Perhaps overall?

 
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First, did the original comments include the comma? I don't know, I haven't really been able to find where the original comments came from.

Second, I doubt a similar "inner-city, uneducated" comment would draw the same defense.

Third, the New York Times actually made the argument for the non-comma version.

Lastly, the less educated a voter was in the previous two elections, the more likely they were to vote for Obama (except for post-graduate). So perhaps it changes with the situation. Link

 
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First, did the original comments include the comma? I don't know, I haven't really been able to find where the original comments came from.

Second, I doubt a similar "inner-city, uneducated" comment would draw the same defense.

Third, the New York Times actually made the argument for the non-comma version.

Lastly, the less educated a voter was in the previous two elections, the more likely they were to vote for Obama (except for post-graduate). So perhaps it changes with the situation. Link
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Can you use quotes from the article for that?

I only skimmed but I see them talking about the educated overall, the uneducated overall, educated people who move to cities, and: "Trump is more popular in the counties where people are less educated and more rural and small town."

 
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