I made the point in a previous article that this anti-education bias is the 21st century fixation by the RW. Education - college - was encouraged by the government, federal (GI Bills) and states (state universities were often free to residents). And it was, in most cases, a rounded education in history, science, etc. (One point little known is that Hitler's plan for occupied Europe included the dumbing down of education to the bare minimum (6th grade, if memory serves me) and limiting higher education to the Aryans.) A massive side effect to the anti-tax movement was increasing tuition to ridiculous levels at the once free state schools. So, yeah, those rural folks who used to be able to go the state universities couldn't afford them.