You also missed a very important note at the bottom " The most likely reason
for the lower IQ's in southern states is their significant Black population.
African-Americans consistently test at an average 85 IQ level."

Creating some concern that the list may have come from a racist source- (or
that it merely reflects the long recognized cultural bias in many IQ tests-
particularly those administered to children). However, I'm not the one who
touted this as the "real" list- merely took advantage of the fact that it was
so represented.

My observations are generally correct, although when you take the alphabetizing
into account perhaps only nine, rather than ten, of the top sixteen were blue
states.
Did you remember that New Hampshire was a blue state this time, not a red one?

As there were certainly fewer blue states than red states in the overall count,
what percentage of blue states vs. percentage of red states were in that top
16? A reasonably dramatic difference, revealed by the "real list".