Massachusetts Named Smartest State

[phillybri]

http://www.nbc17.com/education/2540402/detail.html

Here's the Top 10:

2003 Smartest State Rankings
Rank State

1 Massachusetts

2 Vermont

3 Connecticut

4 Montana

5 New Jersey

6 Maine

7 Pennsylvania

8 Wisconsin

8 Iowa

10 New York

Anyone else notice 9 of the top 10 (minus Montana) voted for Gore in 2000...Not being snooty, just saying...

[LTR]

1. Where did California rank?

Not high, I imagine.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. Florida(40) and California(44), not surprisingly, in the bottom 10.

[phillybri]

5. #44...Not good, indeed...

:shrug:

[clar]

2. One might also note

that New England comes out as the 'smartest' region of the country. Now if we could only get NH and RI to join the rest of NE.

[Quahog]

14. Hey!

RI is 16, not bad!

And if those MA people are so smart, why did they elect Mitt Romney governor?

:P

[West Coast Democrat]

3. Hey, I went to College in MA!

I'm quite sure it made the list due to the fact that so many excellent universities are located there.

[phillybri]

6. Anyone else wondering how Montana snuck in there?

Ami I missing something? I've heard some frightening shit about that place...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

12. Cold weather states do well in general

forces kids indoors to read. OTOH California is athlete central

[chiburb]

7. Sure.

You have to be pretty smart to spell it!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. California should be number 50!!!!!!

Look who they voted for!

[RoonShark]

9. How About Texas?

Texas loves George Bush!

[beyurslf]

10. Kansas was 15

Kind of scary really. We don't teach evolution in public schools and the Legislature tried to ban a class at Kasas University because of sexual content.

And we haven't voted for a Dem for President since LBJ. And I think we only did twice in all of the 20th century.

[zls44]

11. Pfft...

TAXACHUSETTS...sure...jk.

[Throckmorton]

13. According to the Tax Foundation, Massacheusetts is 13th,

overall in State and Local Taxes. It only become 2nd if you add Federal taxes. This suggests to me that tax funding for education in this state is a lot less than some others.


http://www.taxfoundation.org/statelocal03.html

[NewYorkerfromMass]

15. That's the whine of property owners in the baystate

sales/income taxes etc... are much less regressive than in other states and are more fairly distributed upward to those with deeper pockets.

[Throckmorton]

16. My own State, Connecticut, comes in 5th and 1st, in taxes that is.

and worth every penny, if you ask me. Even our Repuke governor is on the ropes lately.

http://www.nbc30.com/politics/2544350/detail.html

I wonder if he still beats his wife?

[jiacinto]

17. Yeah Florida ranked 40th

But it is better than California!

[jiacinto]

18. What about DC

Did they forget DC?