<p>A “smartest” title is rediculous if you mean intelligence -how can we be sure without equal educational opportunites in each state? In terms of education, I actually can’t be sure, although the NE sounds right in general. California has a large number of well educated people, but state funding for education has been pretty bad after prop 13 so I don’t think we’re ranked particularly high on average. For higher education, like the U.C.'s, we’re great though. But high school? Not so much.</p>