Thanks to anti-liberal columnist and blogger Steve Sailer for clarifying the chart that
correlated state-by-state average IQs and income with the votes for Bush or Gore in the
2000 presidential election.
When we posted the item “The Spectrum from Blue to
Red,” we wrote: “The chart that explains it all for you” (an homage to
Christopher Durang’s outrageous satire, “Sister Mary Explains It All For You,” which drove
conservatives nuts). We also wrote that the chart “could be a joke,” but “if so, it’s a good one. No
worse, certainly, than the outcome” of the election.
The trouble with Sailor’s clarification is that he gets to the bottom of things by scraping
bottom with an anti-Semitic slur when he writes that
“anyone familiar with the topic would quickly recognize the fallaciousness of the data. The 113
[IQ] figure for Connecticut is way too high. That’s about what Connecticut would be if it was
all-Jewish.”
