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Hey Oklahoma, why don't you work on fixing your busted-ass literacy rates first? You've got something like 20% of your adult population that can't fucking read.
Oklahoma : 12% of adults function below basic literacy level
31% of adults are at the basic level
This means 43% of adults in Oklahoma have low literacy skills (national average is 21%)
i am not trying to be contrarian, i just want additional info here - do you have any resources that describe the levels of literacy and what they mean for these studies? (its hard for my brain to come to a conclusion without that info <3)
i want to compare these to different state literacy levels on this spectrum as well.
Living in Oklahoma currently, your not wrong. Maga got a foot hold here. These people are straight up brainrotted and there is no saving them or redeeming them. I wish I could move. But if we sell our house we couldn't afford to buy another. Also where exactly do we go to escape this hell. With Trump as president, and the GOP having control practically to all three branches. Well there just isn't anywhere to escape tnis hell in America.
Also blue states are practically out financially reach for us poor people, or hell even what little middle class left. I had thought about when kids move out trying the van life, or at least Rv life. But shit they are starting to make that illegal to and deem anyone Living that kinda freedom as homeless and that's illegal in the United States.
By design.