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America's Least-Educated Cities Quiz

Name the American cities where the lowest percentage of adults have bachelor's degrees.
Includes cities with a population above 250,000
Quiz by GeoPunk
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Last updated: May 31, 2013
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City
11.7
Santa Ana
12.2
Detroit
12.5
Newark
13.8
Cleveland
17.1
Stockton
%
City
17.3
Toledo
19.8
Bakersfield
20.1
Fresno
21.2
Corpus Christi
21.3
Milwaukee
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City
21.5
Las Vegas
21.9
El Paso
21.9
Riverside
22.4
Miami
22.5
Buffalo
%
City
22.6
Philadelphia
23.1
Memphis
23.4
Anaheim
23.5
Mesa
23.9
San Antonio
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jun 6, 2013
Southern Cal, Texas, Florida, the SouthWest: lots of recent unskilled immigrants looking for work.

Ohio, Pennsylvania, Detroit, the northern midwest: lots of unemployed people that used to have good jobs in manufacturing or other industries where college degrees weren't necessary.

Las Vegas: gangsters, gamblers, prostitutes and bums? Not a lot of need for education in this town, either.

Newark, Buffalo and Memphis: I dunno... I'm stumped on those. Though I did guess Buffalo.

What
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Level 27
Jun 12, 2013
Some of them are also murder capitals, like Detroit, Philly or Newark, others are not... don't know what this quiz can tell one behind the stats...
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jun 12, 2013
high unemployment, crime, poverty, low education can all be correlated.
What
+1
Level 27
Jun 12, 2013
Can... but not always
jmellor13
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Level 67
Jun 12, 2013
Buffalo is culturally very Midwestern (and pretty geographically too, if you notice how far west it is in New York), and would fall into the category of cities that rely on factories to sustain the economy.

Newark is a total dump. It is consistently ranked among the top five most dangerous cities in America. Its proximity to NYC and very low cost of living make it a haven for thugs and undesirables. That's also why it has so many people. It's a city in terms of population only. There is nothing else in Newark but a lot of bad news, and certainly no industry.

Memphis...eh.

kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jun 16, 2013
makes sense
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Feb 10, 2014
Well... I said "northern midwest"... the area of the country commonly referred to as the "Rust Belt." The proper midwest is farther south and centered a bit farther west and is more often known as the farm belt. Different but interrelated places...
takdobre
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Level 64
Nov 19, 2016
Newark has a huge immigrant community of non qualified Europeans
Seals
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Level 52
Jun 12, 2013
I guesses Jersey City, but not Newark. :P
Rolo
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Level 15
Jun 25, 2013
this proves that people in the south-east are not stupid. (I'm from NC)
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jul 16, 2013
There are some good schools and a lot of educated people in North Carolina. Just look how close they came to voting for their interests twice in the last 9 years. More than can be said for any other state in the South except Virginia (which also has a lot of great schools).
joeythelemur
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Level 84
Sep 25, 2014
So kalbahamut, you know what the interests of people in NC are? Better than they themselves know it?

And I think that we should all take care to not equate "lots of people with a degree" with "wisdom" or that those with higher education are always the best arbiters of what is "best" for everyone. Many of the wisest and best people I have ever known are not college graduates.

kalbahamut
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Level 82
Aug 30, 2016
Anyone who is well-educated, well-informed, and actually paying attention would know more about the political best interests of the average person than they themselves know. I'm not special in this regard.

I agree with your second point. Though even if one thing doesn't equal the other, there is a correlation.

ixn
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Level 21
Jul 15, 2013
I only got Newark, Miami, and Las Vegas. :P
greenredblue
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Level 38
Dec 7, 2013
i'm not racist but i put cities where i knew there were more black people
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Feb 10, 2014
That wouldn't have gotten you very many right answers.
pitzikat
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Level 74
May 31, 2015
I didn't enjoy this quiz. I felt like I was just typing cities. And after looking at the answers, I don't see any particular pattern. 250,000 is a pretty low barrier for U.S. cities . . . Riverside, Stockton, Fresno, Bakersfield, Anaheim, Santa Ana . . . there are so many cities in California, unknown to most folks. I lived for a few years in CA so I know where they are.
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