This particular SV poll was simply too good to be true, for both sides: “liberals” got to laugh at those dumbass Okies, and conservatives managed to persuade themselves that schools in freaking Oklahoma are so straining under the weight of political correctness that rudimentary but important information is being left out of the history and civics classes (that and the other conservative shibbloleth, which is simply that public schools are evil).

Probably a better idea of what the schools are like in that region can be found in the book Friday Night Lights (Odessa, TX, totally same diff as Oklahoma). The schools aren’t bad, just really mediocre, football rules, no one really cares about anything else, mainly because everyone can read, write, and cipher well enough to work in the oil fields and hardly anyone aspires to much beyond that.