Vermont is only state whose majority can pass citizenship test: study

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Vermont is the only state where a majority of residents could pass a citizenship test that questioned Americans on basic facts about U.S. government, according to a new nationwide survey.

A study commissioned by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation found that 53 percent of the Vermonters they tested could pass a multiple-choice citizenship test that asked questions such as identifying the year the Constitution was written and the number of amendments to the document.

Majorities in 49 other states and the District of Columbia failed the test. Nationally, just about 40 percent of respondents overall could pass the test, including just 27 percent of those under 45. In Louisiana, just 28 percent of respondents passed.

“Unfortunately, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation has validated what studies have shown for a century: Americans don’t possess the history knowledge they need to be informed and engaged citizens,” said the foundation's president, Arthur Levine.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/430244-vermont-is-only-state-whose-majority-can-pass-citizenship-test

[Historic NY]

1. Now here's an emergency.

Maybe it time to test people if they fail they have to go back to where their family came from. Reverse citizenship. There is no incentive to learn, wrapping yourself in a flag & wearing flag clothes shouting 'USA' means nothing. The dumbing of America. It took my grandmother a number of years to pass the test, but she did, she was determined to get her English good enough to speak the 'pledge'. She sent 2 sons to war, was a widow at 52 and help feed the rest and do farm work.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Some of these questions, though -- does it really show a lack of engagement or information?

The survey found only 15 percent of American adults could correctly note the year the U.S. Constitution was written and only 25 percent knew how many amendments there are to the U.S. Constitution.

What percentage of them know how to look that knowledge up?