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Education has become one of the chief fault lines in American politics. This NYT piece this week by @JedKolko looked at how those divides have widened even more since 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/upshot/election-red-blue-economic-divide.html
Want to see the chasm open up? Go back 20 years. In 2000, Gore and Bush split the 100 most-educated counties in America right down the middle (51-49). Last week, Biden won 83 of them — by 35 points on average.
We built this visualization to explore educational attainment data and voting patterns. Filter the states to see it happening everywhere — bigger, more educated counties shift to the Dems; smaller, less-educated ones shift to GOP, by a lot. https://www.opencampusmedia.org/2020/11/12/shifts-in-educational-attainment-and-voting-by-county-from-2000-to-2020/
For tomorrow we’re looking at two Jefferson Counties. The one in Ohio — where 15% have a bachelor’s degree went from +7 for Gore to +38 for Trump. While its counterpart in Colorado — where 44% have a bachelor’s — shifted from an 8-point Bush win to a 18-point Biden one.
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