Harry Partch

Comfortably Dumb

© Robert Sommers 2026

Wallethub came out with a new survey on the most and least educated cities in America. 

They used a variety of eleven metrics including percentage per capita with high school diplomas, college experience, pubic school quality, gender gap, racial gap, etc. The most educated city in America? Ann Arbor Michigan. The least, Visalia, California.

The report ranked Visalia at No. 150, the lowest overall rank, followed by Bakersfield at No. 147, Modesto at No. 146, Salinas at No. 145, Fresno at No. 144 and Stockton at No. 143.

The analysis compared 150 of the most populated cities in the US across various metrics including the number of adults age 25 and older with at least a bachelor's degree, quality of the public-school system, and the size of the gender education gap.

Bakersfield and Visalia are among the bottom five cities, with the lowest percentage of residents with high school diplomas and adults with college experience. The two cities have the least percentage of people who hold a bachelor's degree.

Shockingly, six of the least educated cities are right here in the Golden State of California. Sort of tarnishing our reputation.

Now I have friends and family who live in these central Valley areas and I was tempted to needle them but they are better educated then I am for the most part.

But being a political person by nature, I had another thought and question? Just who do non educated people tend to vote for?

Here's a map from the 2024 presidential election. Notice anything?

Every city on the non educated list is located in a county that voted predominately red. Coincidence? Right. Of course, pollsters have long known that Trump polled best with uneducated white males and this area of dumbfuckistan has them in spades and takes great pride in that ignorance.

Now I am sure that contrarians will blame or assign these results to the hispanic farm workers that are employed in the area and hurting the curve. And it is one thing to employ them to slave in your fields and another to let their children go to your kid's schools, I get that.

But I don't think that explains the voting pattern, in any case. Contrary to what many people would lead you to believe, undocumented farm workers aren't voting. Perhaps we should look at religion?

Notice anything? Lots of overlay. Keep them stupid and in church and you can get them to vote anyway you want to.