or the more appropriate question would be: do those on the right even know how to use a calculator? - yes, we know they live in bubble, but still..
Thanks to Neil deGrasse Tyson (taken from his facebook page) you can answer this question quite easily - he has prepared a succinct overview of why fox news continues to thrive - the data for his photo below was based on information provided in a foxbusiness article that can be found here (which in turn was taken from an earlier WSJ article)
foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/10/15/americas-best-and-worst-educated-states/
Please see the image below the squiggly thingey