That's because many of those counties have a large population of poor minorities. If one removes the poor minorities, it becomes even more obvious that smarter people are democratic. The correlation between IQ and religiosity is also high and along the same state lines.
LOL @ the guy saying that the smarter people are democratic. Then explain why the more prominent areas of the country are Republican and the poorest areas are democratic? I know you're going to say that smarts has nothing to do with who's doing well financially and poor. But the point is --- if democrats are so smart, how come they aren't able to lift themselves out of their poor conditions?
Ok this is going to sound racist but.. One has to discriminate between poor minority dems and the white dems. If one were compare the whites of the two parties it's no contest. The white dems are smarter.
I can't argue with that necessarily because as I measure smarts (being able to make a living in the world), a lot of white democrats fair much better than minority democrats.
the only thing we know for sure about white dems is that they suck off the govt trough more that white republicans.
White People Within Republican States Receive More Welfare and Food-stamps Than the People in Democrat States. http://exposingreligionblog.tumblr.com/post/35908018305
when you prove your crazy statement about white dems being smarter or whatever you said, I will be happy to show you that republicans are far more like to not work for the govt or be on the govt dole than dems.