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Curmudgeoness

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4. I have had the same experience.

Reply to abelenkpe (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 23, 2014, 08:47 PM

Jul 2014

And by looking at their signs, I have to wonder about their education.

This college educated individual does not support one point that the teabaggers make!

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"Researchers Think They Know Why College-Educated People Support The Tea Party" [View all] applegrove Jul 2014 OP

tea party has college educated supporters? abelenkpe Jul 2014 #1

I have had the same experience. Curmudgeoness Jul 2014 #4

Me either abelenkpe Jul 2014 #14

Good analysis. They're not impoverished yahoos as portrayed. But they are clueless. And this is why. freshwest Jul 2014 #2

It is a coalition of emotionally or financially impoverished. applegrove Jul 2014 #3

What did they study? And above all, how were their grades? Louisiana1976 Jul 2014 #5

IOW, he's referring to suburbs and gated communities.... HooptieWagon Jul 2014 #6

Doesn't really matter, this is a generational event and not the tea party. Rex Jul 2014 #7

None of the teabaggers I know or have encountered are college educated. Most of them AlinPA Jul 2014 #8

And they don't meet up with the educated teabaggers because the educated live applegrove Jul 2014 #9

That's clear, but I have trouble with believing that there are "college educated teabaggers" AlinPA Jul 2014 #10

LOL! applegrove Jul 2014 #12

Agree. Haven't seen any either anywhere. kiranon Jul 2014 #13

There are.... Puzzledtraveller Jul 2014 #15

!! AlinPA Jul 2014 #16

Difficult to empathize with people you never interact with. nt abelenkpe Jul 2014 #11

live in the second richest county in wisconsin and it is tea bag heaven dembotoz Jul 2014 #17