More Educated = More Liberal?

[bedstuy]

I don't think the education numbers from exit polls, by themselves, really show anything about the dynamic relationship between voting and education.  Here's why:

A higher percentage of white people have attained a college degree.  A white person is about twice as likely to have attained a bachelor's degree compared to a black or Hispanic person.  So, education is correlated with whiteness.  Whiteness is correlated with voting for the GOP.

A person with a college degree or higher earns higher wages than an a high school graduate.  So, education is correlated with income.  Higher income people tend to vote for the GOP.
 
So statistically, you would have to have some control for those type of variables.

[bedstuy]

Unless by Postgraduate Study that you mean "Educated" I really don't see how this is the case.

WC, people 'with a college degree' are not very educated in America, as far as I have noticed.  So, yeah, I'd say 'educated' means post graduate - at least a master's degree.

I think that's a good point.  We need to define "educated."  Back in the day, a person with a degree in something like "business" (if that existed), would not be considered educated at all.  They would be considered an uncultured tradesman.  Indeed, elites used to disdain those who sullied their hands toiling at a "trade."  "Educated" meant that you were cultured, lettered, could read latin and were basically what modern Americans would call, "a pretentious, nerdy homo." 

By that old-time definition of educated, I think generally more educated = more liberal.