College-educated population is concentrating in urban areas.

[bullmoose88]

there becomes a linear positive relationship between education and voting Democratic.

That's about as suprising as finding out that there is a direct link between the % of blue collar workers in a given area how likely that area is to vote for the Labour Party

What sort of link, if any, is there between education and voting patterns in britain, Al?

[bullmoose88]

I don't think of intellectuals when I think of conservative hicks, so this isn't too surprising.

The other interesting thing is that rural areas that do have a high percentage of college graduates (e.g. Vermont) still vote Democratic.

Hmm...the Vermont factor makes me wonder about how it used to be say 20-30 years ago (when Vermont was a very Republican state)