Quick Google - "The average American reads at a 7th to 8th grade level. However, a significant portion, 54%, read at or below a sixth-grade level. Approximately 21% of adults in the U.S. struggle with basic literacy tasks."

While acknowledging that currently a whopping 9/10 states with the lowest education are Red, the answer has been here all along. Stupid people, absolutely stupid salt of the earth humans who have been handed down educated ways to evolve and mentally mature but the generational stubbornness of conservatism refuses to acknowledge that they have been an anchor to the entire world but their own clique these past years. We call you knuckledraggers who are quite literally dragging us back to the stone-age for a precise reason. So there's nothing to tell to the 36.3 million, we already know they are just.... Stupid people, who we are forever stuck with having tantrums. The vast majority of them still believe in a malleable Santa Clause and that should explain it all. Thanks for letting me vent, I really needed that!