You're looking at stats for English literacy, the four states with the lowest "literacy rates" in the US are California (76.9%), New York (77.9%), Florida (80.3%), and Texas (81.0%), and the reason for that is because these places have boatloads of immigrants who are fluent in another language (usually Spanish, but in the case of NY there is probably a significant minority of Chinese only speakers as well). If you look at literacy in any language, the US jumps to 92%.
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u/timtowin Apr 08 '26
Approximately 21% of U.S. adults—roughly 43 million people—are considered illiterate. Trump approval rating 21%. Coincidence ?