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> Matt has it right: the "education" distortion is really an income distortion.

Just to clarify: It's more like the opposite is true. The true association between income & liberalism only becomes clear when you control for income. The richer you are, the more likely you're a Republican; but if you hold income constant, people with more schooling tend to be Democrats.

Liberalism is a function of education if you control for income. Historically (up until 2000, anyway) college graduates were more likely to vote Republican than those without degrees, because college grads usually had more money. Matthew Yglesias is wrong to say this is just an artifact of race; you see the same associations between income, education and political leanings within white communities. (Black Americans lean Democratic and this holds for all income and education levels.)

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