Bizjournals, the online media division of American City Business Journals, ranks Seattle as “America’s Smartest City” in its most recent issue. According to their criteria, it’s all about the college. In Seattle, 47.2% of residents have at least a bachelor’s degree — the highest percentage in the nation. I have observed that to be true; a great deal of the people who make me my coffee seem really well-educated!
At the bottom? Well, My Fair Birthplace of Detroit is down there with only 11% of the population hanging a degree on the wall. At least they have a better baseball team.
But as we all know, having a degree doesn’t necessarily equate to being smart. We all know what the true measure of intelligence is in this country: who you voted for in 2004! In that regards, the Detroit area boasts more brains than here:
| County | Bush | Kerry |
|---|---|---|
| King | 33.7% | 65% |
| Wayne (Detroit) | 29.8% | 69.4% |
I couldn’t find city-by-city data, but anecdotally Seattle was 80-20 for Kerry, so maybe we really are the smarter city after all!
Comments
That's if the votes were all counted and, counted correctly!
Posted by: Dar | June 16, 2006 9:26 AM