@JoParkerBear @allynkhine@mastodon.social @Npars01 @fribbledom

Ditto Kentucky. Education here is absolute crap - even the public schools push fairy tales as history, and forget about science - and as a result the people outside the three major urban areas (3 counties out of 120) are too illiterate and uneducated to even read a book or an in-depth article on policy and comprehend it. (If they were so inclined to do so, which I assure you they are generally not.) The educated people came from elsewhere or are the kids of those people. You know how the *average* reading level in the US is sixth grade? Here in places it's fourth or fifth (somebody had to be below average, and Kentucky is one of those somebodies).