William H. Magill wrote:If I remember correctly, it was Tim Russert of NBC who made the comment on several occasions to the effect that, "throughout his political career, Bush has been considered "dumb" by his opponents, to their ultimate consternation; his "folksy" ways are simply not understood in the Urban centers, and are interpreted as the "dumb hillbilly" stereotype."
I guess everyone's seen this by now? :
http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm ;-) ......... laserbeam® [aka ray]
One wonders how offended everyone would be if this were about "dumb blacks" instead of "dumb whites." Aha, the joys of IQ debates. :)
Make certain you follow the "jump" at the bottom of the above table to another blog site, and the jump from there to the "American Assembler" blog.
It seems that nobody can find the source data, and that the "original" poster finally came clean:
http://americanassembler.com/features/iq_state_averages.htm
"I'm the one who posted the IQ chart correlating IQ and votes in the 2000 election. As the "humor" contributor, I am the one that tracks down amusing stories or cartoons to post here at the American Assembler.
It was irresponsible of me to post this chart in this format and I apologize to the American Assembler and it's readers for having done so. It was never my intent for anyone to take this seriously and I erred in judgment in not realizing that people would. Even if this chart is not a hoax, as it most probably is, it was inappropriate to post it for it is simply offensive."
BTW, the original Usenet posting from 2002-11-28 was by Robert Calvert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) can be found here:
http://groups.google.com/groups? q=average+IQ+state+according+Ravens+APM+source+world&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF -8&oe=UTF -8&selm=a3cd6a89.0211282236.205d33d3%40posting.google.com&rnum=1
You can follow the thread from there if you want.
T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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