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  • A recent Edelman survey of nearly 5,000 members of the "informed public" - which the research firm defined as college-educated folks with incomes in the top quartile for their age - found as much.

    MarketWatch.com - Top Stories 2011

  • He thinks it’s funny, for a middle-aged black guy to call a college-educated, just-past-30 honky his boy.

    Occupational Hazards Jonathan Segura 2008

  • He thinks it’s funny, for a middle-aged black guy to call a college-educated, just-past-30 honky his boy.

    Occupational Hazards Jonathan Segura 2008

  • Of these four groups, the highest percentage of Republicans is found among people who attend church frequently and have high education.16 Furthermore, as shown in Figure 11.4, since the 1970s, Republicans have seen gains among college-educated churchgoers—voters with one foot in the country club wing and another in the Sunday School wing of the party.17

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • The GSS evidence shows that college-educated young people reconnected with organized religion in the 1970s and 1980s, though less educated young people did not.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Comparing, say, two demographically matched young college-educated liberal women or comparing two demographically matched older less educated conservative men, the one who seldom attends church is likely to be more supportive of the civil liberties of racists, militarists, and so forth than is her more religiously observant counterpart.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • According to the National Election Studies archives, weekly churchgoing among college-educated white men almost doubled in little more than a decade between 1952 and 1964 from about 29 percent to about 53 percent.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • However, according to the General Social Survey, 1972–2008, religious attendance declined slightly more rapidly among non-college-educated young people 18–29 than among their college-educated peers.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Further analysis this time of the National Election Studies archives shows that the surge was somewhat greater among whites19 and among college-educated men.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Of all American men born in the 1920s, 80 percent had served in the military during World War II, and after the war many took advantage of the GI Bill to become the first college-educated persons in their families.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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