"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin

From an amazing article in the Economist summarizing a research paper "Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right", by Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano and Thomas Piketty (working paper, 2021)
"The relationship between education and ideology began to reverse as early as the 1960s. Every year, the 10% of voters with the most years of schooling gravitated towards left-wing parties, while the remaining 90% slid the other way.
By 2000, this had gone on for so long that, as a group, the most educated voters became more left-wing than their less-educated peers. The gap has only grown since then.
This trend is strikingly consistent. It appears in almost every Western democracy studied."*

"Six-in-ten voters who have a postgraduate degree identify with the Democratic Party (61%), while 37% associate with the Republican Party.
The GOP now holds a 6 point advantage over the Democratic Party (51% to 45%) among voters who do not have a bachelor’s degree."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson

pewresearch.org - A wider ideological gap between more and less educated adults

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