How smart is Richmond?

The Daily Beast recently ranked 55 of American’s largest cities based on the intelligence* of their residents.

Richmond grabbed 27th place, tying with Pittsburgh and Los Angeles… the middle of the list, but somewhat respectable.

Meanwhile, Raleigh-Durham, NC nabbed the top spot while Fresno, CA scored last place by a landslide.

See the entire list here.

For more on what factors they used to determine each city’s intelligence, stop by the original post. I wanted to break it down for you here, but I wasn’t quite smart enough. I mean, I *am* from Richmond.

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Valerie Catrow

Valerie Catrow is the former editor of RVANews who now spends her days raising her son, reading young adult fiction, and watching really bad television.

8 comments on How smart is Richmond?

  1. Jeff E. on said:

    I wonder if they could have been more brief in their description of how Richmond received its ranking? All that reading hurt my little hayed.

  2. Liberty on said:

    democrats rule the roost in Richmond, i’m sure that didnt help our ranking

  3. Stupid Democrats. If we were more Republican, like San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose (#2) or Boston (#3) or Hartford-New Haven (#6), we might have ranked higher.

  4. Liberty on said:

    we helped put Obama in the white house, thats not lookin like a real smart choice in my opinion, at least were not stupid enough to put Deeds in as governor, but he’ll probably win central virginia

  5. Sarcaster on said:

    I’m a Democrat. I know how to capitalize and use punctuation. Go smoart me!

  6. Isn’t there any place where idiotic political discussions will NOT happen, where people will not attack each other for what political persuasion they are? Go away, and please take your attacks with you.

  7. Liberty on said:

    @sarcaster-”I know how to capitalize and use punctuation” sounds like something a kindergartener would say, or a democrat, lol i enjoy needling dumbocrats its fun :)

  8. Hey Daily Beast! “Raleigh-Durham” isn’t a city! That’s not very smart… :(

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