America's diploma divide: States with fewer grads went for Trump
2024 Presidential Election,Education,Colleges And Universities
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One factor with a startlingly strong record of predicting whether a state voted Trump or Harris: the percentage of their population that graduated college.
Why it matters: America has split, and flipped, by education levels. Democrats have largely lost the working-class voters who elected Barack Obama, and college-educated professionals are shifting away from the Republican Party.
Now those with degrees overwhelmingly back Dems, and those without make up most of the red base.
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